Granite 4.2 3B

Open weights Active Text LLM Dense granite-4-2-3b

Dense 3B Granite 4.2 model with native switchable chain-of-thought reasoning for agentic workflows.

Released
Aug 25, 2026
Context window
131K tokens
Max output
Not disclosed
Parameters
3B
Input price
Not disclosed
Output price
Not disclosed

Prices are first-party list prices in USD at the standard tier. Last verified Oct 30, 2026.

Pricing

No first-party API. This is an open-weights release you can run yourself.

Specifications

Developer
IBM
Model type
Text LLM
Architecture
Dense
Parameters
3B
Input
Text
Output
Text
Knowledge cutoff
Not disclosed
License
Apache License 2.0
API access
No first-party API
Capabilities
Long context Reasoning Small LM Tool use