granite-4.2-8b vs o3 Mini High
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
80 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.10
Output / 1M
$4.40
AA index
11
proprietary · 200K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.2-8b | o3 Mini High |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | API-only (closed weights) |
| Parameters | 8.8 B | n/a — API-only |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | n/a — API-only |
| Context length | 131,072 | 200,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Per API terms |
| Languages | 12 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads 30d | 80,469 | n/a — API-only |
| Downloads all time | 192 K | n/a — API-only |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | n/a — API-only |
| Gated | No | n/a — API-only |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-07 | n/a — API-only |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.06 | $1.10 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.25 | $4.40 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.31 | $5.50 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.015 | $0.55 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.1 | 11 |
| AA Coding Index | 22.4 | 16.3 |
| AA Agentic Index | 1.3 | 0.9 |
| Max output tokens | 117,964 | 100,000 |
| API providers | 2 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
granite-4.2-8b
$0.31
o3 Mini High
$5.50
granite-4.2-8b is 17.7× cheaper at list price.
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-4.2-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB