IBM Granite · Open weights
granite-4.2-8b
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
Open weights Available 🛠 Tool calling 128K 🕒 Verified on 2026-10-10
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- Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Specs
- Provider
- IBM Granite
- Platform
- Hugging Face
- Type
- Open weights
- Modalities
- Text
- Parameters
- ≈8.8B (from weight files)
- Context length
- 128K (131,072 tokens)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- 2026-08-07
How to access
- Hugging Face
- https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
- ModelScope
- https://modelscope.cn/models/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Official sources
- Hugging Face – ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
- OpenRouter models API（工具调用字段 / tool-calling field） https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
- ModelScope – ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b https://modelscope.cn/models/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
🕒 Verified on 2026-10-10 · Free terms change often. Always confirm limits, data-use policy and regional availability on the official page before relying on a free tier.