Granite-4.2-8B Pricing Guide: Provider Comparison

IBM’s Granite-4.2-8B is an 8-billion-parameter, Apache 2.0-licensed open-weight reasoning model released in August 2026, offering a 131,072-token context window, tool calling, structured JSON output, and configurable reasoning modes. DeepInfra’s pricing guide positions it as a cost-conscious option for production use, with direct pricing of $0.06 per million input tokens, $0.25 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached tokens, while CoreWeave charges more for input and cache but less for output at $0.15 per million tokens. The comparison emphasizes that DeepInfra is generally better suited to prompt-heavy, RAG, document-processing, multi-turn, and cached agent workloads, whereas CoreWeave may be more economical for applications generating lengthy responses. OpenRouter provides access through routing, failover, and compatibility features but may yield variable costs depending on the selected provider. Although Granite-4.2-8B has competitive latency and throughput figures, its reported verbosity means output-token usage can substantially affect actual spending, making input length, output length, and cache-hit rates the main factors in estimating deployment costs.

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