What is the context window of IBM: Granite 4.2 8B?

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B supports a context window of 131K tokens.

Is IBM: Granite 4.2 8B free to use?

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B is a paid model. It costs $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B API Pricing — $0.060 Input / $0.150 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does IBM: Granite 4.2 8B cost?

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.060 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B by Ibm Granite — $0.060 input / $0.150 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 131K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$0.060

Output / 1M tokens

$0.150

Provider

Ibm Granite

Context window

131K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.022	$0.65
Small app (1K/day)	$0.135	$4.05
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$1.95	$58.50
Large scale (100K/day)	$45.00	$1350.00

Model ID: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About IBM: Granite 4.2 8B

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B is an LLM developed by Ibm Granite. Input costs $0.060 per million tokens and output costs $0.150 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 131K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $0.060 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $0.150 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does IBM: Granite 4.2 8B Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $0.1350
Monthly cost: $4.050

Accessing IBM: Granite 4.2 8B via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including IBM: Granite 4.2 8B. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. IBM: Granite 4.2 8B is available on OpenRouter with the model ID ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.