Granite 4.2 8B

Overview

Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM. It is suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows that need multi-step reasoning. It supports full, low-effort,... Granite 4.2 8B is served through the PARROTSIGHT unified API at IBM's list price, with the same authentication, metering and regional pinning (MY / SG / ID) as every native model. No separate provider account is required.

• 131K token context
• OpenAI-compatible endpoint — migrate with a two-line change
• Streaming (SSE) supported for all text outputs
• Billed at provider list price, metered per token

Capabilities

API

curl -X POST https://api.parrotsight.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b","messages":[{"role":"system","content":"You are a concise bilingual assistant."},{"role":"user","content":"Summarise this quarter's platform metrics in Malay and English."}],"stream":true}'

Version history

1. v2026.8Latest2026-08-31

   Added to the PARROTSIGHT catalogue at IBM list pricing.