Granite 4.2 8B

By IBM · released 2026-08-25 (1 month) · 1 effort level

Missed the frontier at launchOff the frontier todayopen weights

Intelligence index: 11.10
Cost to run the AA index: $53.1
Price per 1M tokens (in / out): $0.06 / $0.25

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Today

Where Granite 4.2 8B stands on the 2026-10-24 frontier

No measured level is on the frontier today.

Level	Input modalities	Intelligence	Cost	E2E	Today	Matchup
Granite 4.2 8B	Text	11.10	$53.1	39.3s	beaten by GPT-6 Luna (High)	Compare

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Launch day

What Granite 4.2 8B did to the frontier on 2026-08-25

Missed the frontier at launch

No level beat the existing frontier on both axes.

Reached the frontier0 of 1

Impact (hypervolume gained)0

Rank, past year's releases—

Smartest level11.10

Cheapest level$53.1

Reached the frontierMissed itDisplaced from the old frontierFrontier the day beforeFrontier after the releaseRegion gained (impact)

Grey: the frontier the day before. Black: after this release. Shaded: the area it newly dominates, which is the impact number.

Missed the frontier

Level	Intelligence	Cost	Beaten by	Intel gap	Cost ratio
Granite 4.2 8B	11.10	$53.1	GPT-5.6 Luna (Non-reasoning)	−4.4	2.31×

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