LLM
Granite 4.2 8B
IBM Granite 4.2 dense text model (8B), weights and code with data partly documented.
Levelmodel
ClassLLM
Parameters8B
Context128,000
ReleasedSep 2026
Opennessopen source
Runs onconsumer GPU
Statusactive
Benchmark Results
vendor-reported
IFBenchknowledge and reasoning
vendor-reported
79.33
050100
Score in %. Higher is better.
MMLU-Proknowledge and reasoning
vendor-reported
74.04
050100
Score in %. Higher is better.
SWE-bench Verifiedcoding
vendor-reported
47.67
050100
Score in %. Higher is better.
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).
Lineage
finetune
Granite-4.1-8B-Base is the parent (finetune)medium confidencemodel cardWhere this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.
Identity
- Developer
- IBM
- Family
- Granite 4.2
- Released
- Sep 2026 sourcesregistry date
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- dense transformer Dense transformer, GQA (not Mamba)
- Total parameters
- 8B sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Note
- 128K native, extends to 512K
- Context length
- 128,000 tokens
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open source
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0 sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- consumer GPU
- Footprint
- FP8 and GGUF variants
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- 12 languages listed; no Indonesian
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperIBMbig tech, USA
IBMbig tech, USAModelGranite 4.2 8BIBM, LLM
Granite 4.2 8BIBM, LLMUse CasesClinical LLM (Open Weights)HealthcareProcess Optimisation and Advanced Process ControlIndustrialTelecom Domain LLMs and BenchmarksTelecomUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs It
PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (AMMAN)In production, 8 Jul 2026MIND IDResearch, 14 Oct 2025
Conch CementIn production, 23 Jun 2025
PT Kalbe Morinaga IndonesiaIn production, Oct 2024+2 moreDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
PT Amman Mineral Nusa Tenggara (AMMAN)In production, 8 Jul 2026MIND IDResearch, 14 Oct 2025Conch CementIn production, 23 Jun 2025PT Kalbe Morinaga IndonesiaIn production, Oct 2024+2 moreDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.Organisations 1
Sources
- ibm-granite (IBM Granite) huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite
- ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Granite 4.2 8B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/ibm-granite-4-2-8b/, records of October 2026.