How is Granite 4.2 8B billed?

Input is $0.078 and output is $0.195 per million tokens; cached input is $0.0195. The charge for every request is listed in Usage Logs in the console.

How long is the context window?

131K tokens. In a long conversation every turn is billed for the full input, so keep the history under control.

Does it support streaming?

Yes. Add "stream": true to the request to receive server-sent events in the OpenAI format.

IBM: Granite 4.2 8B

granite-4.2-8b

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Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.078 per million input tokens and $0.195 per million output tokens, supports 131K context, and is available through the OpenAI-compatible API.

IBM Granite 4.2 8B is an Apache 2.0-licensed dense model with native step-by-step reasoning and specialized training for agentic work. It can plan before acting, sequence tools, navigate codebases, work in terminals, and verify results across coding, search, mathematics, science, and complex instruction-following tasks.

Modalities

Text → Text

Input / output price

$0.078 / $0.195 per 1M

Context

131K

Capabilities

ReasoningTool callingOpen weights

Pricing

Billed per token actually used and deducted from your credits.

Item	USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.078
Output	$0.195
Cached input	$0.0195

Calculator

Drag the sliders to estimate what this model will cost.

Input per request 3K tokensOutput per request 800 tokensRequests per day 500Cached input 0%(higher with long chats or a fixed system prompt)

Per request: $0.00039
Per day: $0.1950
Per month (30 days): $5.85

Granite 4.2 8B: input $0.078/M · output $0.195/M · cached input $0.0195/M

Request with these settings

curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "granite-4.2-8b", "max_tokens": 800,
       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "…"}]}'

Code samples

OpenAI-compatible. Set the base URL to https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1 and the model to granite-4.2-8b.

curl https://api.geniusrelaygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "granite-4.2-8b",
    "stream": true,
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

Use it in a client: Cursor · Cline · SillyTavern · Codex

Parameters

Common OpenAI parameters can be passed as-is.

temperaturetop_pmax_tokensstreamstoppresence_penaltyfrequency_penaltyseed

FAQ

How is Granite 4.2 8B billed?: Input is $0.078 and output is $0.195 per million tokens; cached input is $0.0195. The charge for every request is listed in Usage Logs in the console.
How long is the context window?: 131K tokens. In a long conversation every turn is billed for the full input, so keep the history under control.
Does it support streaming?: Yes. Add "stream": true to the request to receive server-sent events in the OpenAI format.

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