# Granite (slim)

> Granite, a family of models by IBM, listed from OpenRouter. Indexed, not reviewed: facts and our own checks, no score or ranking. Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM. It is suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows that…

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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

# Granite

> Indexed, not reviewed: facts from OpenRouter and our own checks. No score, grade or rank, and not in the rankings until the panel reviews it. How the index works: https://www.anchorterminal.com/indexed/

- Kind: model family, by IBM
- Category: Model APIs & inference (https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/inference.md)
- Listed because: OpenRouter lists it, with prices from the providers that serve it.
- What OpenRouter says: Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM. It is suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows that need multi-step reasoning. It supports full, low-effort,...

## Models (1)

| Model | OpenRouter id | Released | Context | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Supports |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Granite 4.2 8B | `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b` | 2026-08 | 131k | $0.06 | $0.25 | tools, structured output, reasoning, caching |

Prices and limits as OpenRouter lists them; a provider's own price can differ.

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