ibm-granite /

granite-4.2-8b

24 DZD in 100 DZD out 6 DZD cached/ 1M tokens

Granite 4.2 8B is IBM's mid-size open reasoning model, and the smallest one in its family trained to act. Beyond the chain-of-thought reasoning shared across Granite 4.2, the 8B goes through an additional agentic reinforcement-learning stage in real sandboxed environments — editing real repositories, driving a live terminal, and running multi-hop web searches — which is why it is the smallest Granite 4.2 model with reported agentic coding results. Three thinking modes let you trade reasoning depth against latency per request, and it holds a 128K context with substantially better long-context recall than the compact tier. Tested across twelve languages and released under Apache 2.0, it is the balanced default on DEVUP AI for production agents, coding assistants, and long-document work.