IBM Granite 4.2 8B Now Available on DeepInfra

DeepInfra announced the availability of IBM Granite 4.2 8B, an Apache 2.0-licensed dense reasoning model designed for enterprise workloads, coding agents, tool use, and workflow automation. The 8B-parameter model offers selectable per-query reasoning modes—full chain-of-thought, low-effort reasoning, and direct answers—allowing users to balance quality, latency, and compute costs without changing model weights. Post-trained through supervised fine-tuning, GRPO-based reinforcement learning, and preference alignment, it supports reasoning-augmented OpenAI-schema function calling, 12 languages, JSON output, and a native 128K-token context window, with a 512K extension available. IBM reports scores including 86.67 on AIME 2025 and 47.67 on SWE-Bench Verified, while noting that these self-reported results should be independently validated. Available through DeepInfra’s OpenAI-compatible API in bfloat16 precision, the model costs $0.06 per million input tokens, $0.25 per million output tokens, and $0.015 per million cached tokens, with the platform emphasizing zero data retention and SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications.

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