Granite 4.2 3B
IBMOpen WeightApache 2.0 · Commercial OK
Description
IBM Granite 4.2 3B is the compact 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. Unlike the 8B and 30B, it did not receive the extra agentic RL block. Open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Text-only (not multimodal).
Release Date
2026-08-25
Parameters
3.0B
Context Length
—
Modalities
text
Capability Radar
9
general
19
coding
56
reasoning
35
science
50
agents
0
multimodal
Rankings
| Domain | #Rank | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic Capability | 112 | 35.0 | LS |
| Code Ranking | 388 | 23.0 | AA |
| General Ranking | 542 | 11.0 | AA |
| Science | 363 | 31.0 | AA |
Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Agents
TAU3-Bench
45.8%SR
General
Arena-Hard v2
35.0%SR
Instruction Following
IFBench
74.3%SR
Language
MMLU-Pro
67.8%SR
Long Context
RULER 64k
67.5%SR
RULER 128k
55.3%SR
Math
AIME 2025
78.3%SR
HMMT25
66.7%SR
Reasoning
LiveCodeBench v6
69.7%SR
GPQANYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023)
54.8%SR
ProfBench
32.1%SR
SciCode
24.1%SR
Tool Calling
BFCL-V4
52.4%SR
AA Evaluation Indices
(Artificial Analysis)Gpqa(NYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023))55.9
Scicode(UIUC + Argonne National Lab (2024))25.3
Lcr(Artificial Analysis)24.3
Coding Index(Artificial Analysis)17.5
Terminalbench V2 113.9
Intelligence Index(Artificial Analysis)9.1
Hle(Center for AI Safety + Scale AI (2025))6.6
Tau Banking5.6
Terminalbench V4 00.0
LLM Stats Category Scores
(LLM Stats (zeroeval))Instruction Following70
Language70
Legal70
Finance70
Healthcare70
Long Context60
Math60
General60
Reasoning50
Tool Calling50
Physics40
Agents40
Biology40
Chemistry40
Knowledge30
Creativity30
Writing30
Code20
Pricing
Input Price$0.03 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0.12 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0.052 / 1M tokens
Speed
Tokens/sec52.5
Time to First Token0.38s
Time to Answer38.49s
Provider Price Ranking
Provider Price Ranking
2 providers
Cheapest: DeepInfraMost Expensive: IBM
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1DeepInfraCheapest
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2IBMPRIMARY
$0.03
$0.12
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