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Granite 4.2 30B

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Granite 4.2 30B is made by IBM Granite. We don't have enough test results yet to rank it. Its makers have published it, so you can run it on your own servers.

Dense 30B reasoning model, Apache 2.0, built on Granite-4.1-30B-Base. Native 128K context, long-context extension to 512K. Thinking modes: full (default), non-thinking, low-effort. Release date per model card (HF repo created 2026-08-07). Not on OpenRouter.

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Price: Price unknown— / —
Price per 1M (blended)Blended / 1M: —
MemoryContext: 131K
Longest answerMax output: —
Test resultsResults: 1 (1 independent1 indep.)
Out sinceReleased: 25 Aug 2026
Made byVendor: IBM Granite
UnderstandsInputs: text

Scores are out of 100 for each area, compared with every model we track; “#” is its rank. Context is how much text it can read at once (1M is roughly 700,000 words). Blended price mixes the cost of what you send and what it writes back.

Thinking levels

Reasoning settings

No reasoningLowDefault

Links

Run it yourself

Self-hosting

On your own servers,Licence, sizeunder your own control.and hardware.

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LicenceLicence: Apache-2.0
OK for business useCommercial use: Yes
SizeParams (total / active): 30B
Can be trained furtherBase model: Yes ↗

Hardware you'd need

Hardware tier & memory

Runs on a powerful laptop or workstation.

≤ 24 GB at 4-bit (one consumer GPU / 32 GB Mac). Weights ≈ 32 GB at 8-bit, 17 GB at 4-bit (+10–30% for KV cache).

Languages: Languages: Tested: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Chinese (no Nordic).

Training it further: Fine-tuning: No recipe in card; Apache base Granite-4.1-30B-Base published.

Quantisations: bf16, fp8, nvfp4, mxfp4, gguf (ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-GGUF), mlx q4/q8/bf16. Engines: vLLM, SGLang, Transformers.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	14.8	DefaultGranite 4.2 30B	Independent testIndependentArtificial Analysis ↗	1 Oct 2026	—	AA slug granite-4-2-30b; AA flags this Intelligence Index as ESTIMATED (intelligenceIndexIsEstimated=true, not all component evals run) - treat as provisional