Granite 4.2 30B
IBMOpen WeightApache 2.0 · Commercial OK
Description
IBM Granite 4.2 30B is the flagship dense decoder-only reasoning LLM in the Granite 4.2 family. It supports native think, non-think, and low-effort modes, tool calling, and a 128K native context window with extension to 512K. The 8B and 30B sizes received additional agentic reinforcement learning for multi-step tool use. Open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Text-only (not multimodal).
Release Date
2026-08-25
Parameters
30.0B
Context Length
—
Modalities
text
Capability Radar
12
general
31
coding
64
reasoning
44
science
50
agents
0
multimodal
Rankings
| Domain | #Rank | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Capability | 59 | 48.0 | LS |
| Code Ranking | 261 | 43.0 | AA |
| General Ranking | 492 | 18.0 | AA |
| Science | 246 | 44.0 | AA |
Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Agents
TAU3-Bench
62.0%SR
General
Arena-Hard v2
67.9%SR
Instruction Following
IFBench
77.2%SR
Language
MMLU-Pro
77.6%SR
Long Context
RULER 64k
90.0%SR
RULER 128k
81.4%SR
Math
HMMT25
89.2%SR
AIME 2025
89.2%SR
Reasoning
LiveCodeBench v6
75.8%SR
GPQANYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023)
66.4%SR
SWE-Bench Verified
57.0%SR
ProfBench
42.9%SR
SWE-bench Multilingual
41.9%SR
Bird-SQL (dev)
41.9%SR
SciCode
38.8%SR
SWE-Bench ProPrinceton NLP (2024)
33.3%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.1
29.2%SR
Tool Calling
BFCL-V4
61.4%SR
AA Evaluation Indices
(Artificial Analysis)Gpqa(NYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023))64.4
Lcr(Artificial Analysis)49.0
Scicode(UIUC + Argonne National Lab (2024))37.8
Coding Index(Artificial Analysis)29.9
Terminalbench V2 126.6
Tau Banking14.4
Intelligence Index(Artificial Analysis)12.7
Hle(Center for AI Safety + Scale AI (2025))11.2
Terminalbench V4 00.0
LLM Stats Category Scores
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Long Context90
Instruction Following80
Language80
Legal80
Finance80
Healthcare80
Math70
Creativity70
Writing70
Reasoning60
Frontend Development60
General60
Physics50
Agents50
Biology50
Chemistry50
Tool Calling50
Knowledge40
Code40
Pricing
Input Price$0.16 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0.65 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0.282 / 1M tokens
Speed
Tokens/sec53.7
Time to First Token0.34s
Time to Answer37.55s
Provider Price Ranking
Provider Price Ranking
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