Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b- Released
- Aug 25, 2026
- Version
- Granite 4.2 30B
- License
- apache-2.0
IBMGranite 4.2 30B
Granite 4.2 30B is IBM's flagship open-weight dense reasoning model with native 128K context, optional 512K long-context extension, flexible thinking modes, and tool calling.
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- Aug 25, 2026
Providers & Pricing
Estimate workload cost →| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache read / 1M | Cache write / 1M | Observed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DeepinfraAvailable | $0.16 | $0.65 | $0.040 | — | Sep 3, 2026 | Provider-reported |
Benchmarks
All benchmark results →| LMArena Text Arenatext-2026-09-01-011508720696 | 1,362.55 | — | 3,287 | granite-4.2-30b; 95% CI [1351.93384890, 1373.17607017]; votes 3287; rank 177unknown | Original sourcewinner eligible | Third-party benchmark |
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Context
- 131,072 tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- 29,276,770,304
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Capabilities
- chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, tools
This page represents one immutable developer model ID. Serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach separately and never create duplicate model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
Aliasesgranite-4.2-30b, Granite 4.2 30B, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-fp8, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-GGUF, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-mxfp4, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-nvfp4
Explicit Unknowns
- Maximum output
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b developer model repositoryIBM · observed Sep 2, 2026DeepInfra OpenAI-compatible model catalogDeepInfra · observed Sep 2, 2026ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b config.json at 8b445a5c315fIBM · observed Sep 2, 2026ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b README.md at 8b445a5c315fIBM · observed Sep 2, 2026ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b immutable Hub API metadataIBM · observed Sep 2, 2026Introducing Granite 4.2IBM · observed Sep 2, 2026Hugging Face Publishers catalogHugging Face Publishers · observed Sep 2, 2026
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Questions
Granite 4.2 30B FAQs
What is Granite 4.2 30B?+
Granite 4.2 30B is IBM's flagship open-weight dense reasoning model with native 128K context, optional 512K long-context extension, flexible thinking modes, and tool calling. It is developed by IBM and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Granite 4.2 30B support?+
Granite 4.2 30B's current record lists Text as input and Text as output.
How much context does Granite 4.2 30B support?+
The current record lists a 131,072-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Granite 4.2 30B available through an API?+
Granite 4.2 30B is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Deepinfra and Hugging Face.
How large is Granite 4.2 30B?+
The current record lists 29,276,770,304 total parameters and an unknown active parameter count. Its architecture is GraniteForCausalLM.
What capabilities and tasks does Granite 4.2 30B support?+
Granite 4.2 30B's recorded capabilities are chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, and tools. Its supported tasks are code, reasoning, and text.
How much does Granite 4.2 30B cost through an API?+
The lowest directly sourced prices currently attached to Granite 4.2 30B are $0.16 per million input tokens through Deepinfra and $0.65 per million output tokens through Deepinfra. Prices are provider-specific and should be checked against each cited observation date.
Can Granite 4.2 30B be self-hosted?+
Granite 4.2 30B is an open-weight model. Self-hosting is supported, and the recorded license is apache-2.0.
Does Granite 4.2 30B have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are granite-4.2-30b, Granite 4.2 30B, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-fp8, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-GGUF, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-mxfp4, and ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-nvfp4.
Which models can Granite 4.2 30B be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes Granite 4.2 8B, Granite 4.2 3B, granite-4.1-30b, Qwen3.8-27B, and Muse Glimmer 30B. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →