Granite 4.2 8B

Name: Granite 4.2 8B
Author: Ibm Granite

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-ef

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Reference model card from the OpenRouter listing - model ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b. Prices are per million tokens as listed; ratings and installs below are from this marketplace.

Granite 4.2 8B

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Vendor	Ibm Granite
Context window	131,072 tokens
Max output	117,964 tokens
Input price	$0.06 / 1M tokens
Output price	$0.25 / 1M tokens
Input	text
Output	text
Tool calling	yes
Structured outputs	yes
Reasoning	yes
Open weights	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

Endpoint: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 (OpenAI-compatible), model ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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# after Install: the listing is in your workspace's routing pool - nothing else to configure
curl -s -X POST https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/route -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OSR_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "...", "plan": true}'
# or pin it on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint: {"model": "model-ibm-granite-granite-4-2-8b", ...}

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

model-ibm-granite-granite-4-2-8b.ocm.jsonjson

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  "publisher": "Ibm Granite",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
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    ],
    "languages": [
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    "modalities": [
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    "supports_tools": true,
    "supports_streaming": true,
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  "examples": [
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  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
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      "url": "https://openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b",
      "key": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b",
      "catalogue": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
    },
    "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b",
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    "max_output_tokens": 117964,
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    ],
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    "reasoning": true,
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    }
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  ]
}

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