IBM Granite
IBM: Granite 4.2 8B
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
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, and non-thinking modes. The model supports 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.
/ 1M tokens
/ 1M tokens
tokens
Limits
Context
131,072
tokens
Max output
117,964
90% of the context window
Parameters
8,791,592,960
Model facts
Author
IBM Granite
Tokenizer
Other
Modality
Text -> Text
License
Apache-2.0
Created
Aug 31, 2026
Hugging Face
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Default generation parameters
temperature
1
top_p
0.95
Reasoning
Publication status
Modalities
Generation controls
Capability scores
Better than 14% of models compared
Better than 19% of models compared
Better than 25% of models compared