Where can I access Granite 4.2 30B?

Artificial Analysis

IBM

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Open weights model

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Released August 2026

Granite 4.2 30B API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis

Model Comparison

This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Granite 4.2 30B for your use-case.

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No API providers are currently available for Granite 4.2 30B.

Benchmarks of providers are not available for this model.

Please see the models page for Granite 4.2 30B for details of the model and its intelligence compared to other models.

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

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Seconds to first answer token received · Lower is better

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USD per 1M tokens (blended) · Lower is better

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Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.

Pricing

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output: Granite 4.2 30B

Price (USD per M Tokens) · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

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Price per token for cached prompts (previously processed), typically offering a significant discount compared to regular input price, represented as USD per million tokens. The values shown here are the cache hit price; cache write and cache storage are billed separately and vary by provider — see "Cache pricing by provider" for detail.

Cost per Intelligence Index Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

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Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Output Speed vs. Price: Granite 4.2 30B

Blended at 7:2:1 (cache-input-output) · Output speed: output tokens per second · USD per 1M tokens (blended)

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Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Speed

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed: Granite 4.2 30B

Output speed: output tokens per second · 10,000 input tokens

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Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Time per Intelligence Index Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Weighted average decode time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Excludes TTFT and overhead time · Lower is better

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The weighted average time (seconds) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task. This is calculated by dividing output tokens per task by output speed, weighted by the relative weights of each benchmark in the Intelligence Index.

Cost per Task vs. Time per Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Weighted average decode time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task

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Latency

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Time to First Answer Token: Granite 4.2 30B

Seconds to first token received · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

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Time to first answer token received, in seconds, after API request sent. For reasoning models, this includes the 'thinking' time of the model before providing an answer. For models which do not support streaming, this represents time to receive the completion.

Figures represent median (P50) measurement over the past 72 hours to reflect sustained changes in performance.

End-to-End Response Time

Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time: Granite 4.2 30B

Seconds to output 500 tokens, including reasoning model 'thinking' time · Lower is better · 10,000 input tokens

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Seconds to receive a 500 token response. Key components:

Input time: Time to receive the first response token
Thinking time (only for reasoning models): Time reasoning models spend outputting tokens to reason prior to providing an answer. Amount of tokens based on the average reasoning tokens across a diverse set of 60 prompts (methodology details).
Answer time: Time to generate 500 output tokens, based on output speed

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Granite 4.2 30B providers

Granite 4.2 30B is not currently available through any API providers we benchmark. As an open weights model, it can be self-hosted.

Granite 4.2 30B API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis

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Pricing

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output: Granite 4.2 30B

Cache Hit

Cost per Intelligence Index Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Output Speed vs. Price: Granite 4.2 30B

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Output Speed: Granite 4.2 30B

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Model Performance Representation

Time per Intelligence Index Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Task vs. Time per Task: Granite 4.2 30B

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Latency

Time to First Answer Token: Granite 4.2 30B

Time to First Answer Token

Median

End-to-End Response Time

End-to-End Response Time: Granite 4.2 30B

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Key Comparison Metrics & API Features

Frequently Asked Questions

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