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Granite 4.2 30B

IBM GraniteOpen weightsartificialanalysis.ai ↗
Input
$0.16/M tok
Output
$0.65/M tok
Blended
$0.282/M tok · 3:1
Speed
77tok/s
Context
131Ktokens

Long-tail import from Artificial Analysis (2026-09-24); AA variant: Granite 4.2 30B. Price = AA median host price.

Rankings

Self-hostingEstimated

How we estimate →

What it would cost to run these open weights yourself on rented GPUs, compared with the API price above.

Hardware
1× B200 180GB
BF16 weights
Throughput
~4,066 tok/s
many requests batched
Price
$0.23–2.03 /M tok
busy → light use
On your own machine
RTX 5090 32GB (int4, ~86 tok/s single-stream)
single consumer GPU or Mac
Assumptions (5)
  • BF16 weights (29.3B params) + 25% KV-cache headroom ≈ 73 GB
  • 1× B200 180GB at $5.98–$14.24/GPU-hour on-demand (2026-09-24)
  • ~4,066 output tok/s aggregate at batch 116 (bandwidth-bound)
  • Blended 3:1 input:output; prefill ~18,142 tok/s
  • Low = 75% utilization at the low GPU price; high = 20% at the high price

Benchmark scores

~ italic, dashed = no published score yet, estimated from related benchmarks.

Coding

~#18 of 19 (estimated)~45.5%
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 5.581.3%
  3. #17Muse Glimmer51.2%
  4. ~#18Granite 4.2 30BEstimated45.5%
  5. #18Nex-N2.5-Mini43.8%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
DeepSWE v1.1Estimated
~#29 of 31 (estimated)~41.5%
  1. #1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
  2. #2Grok 4.772.6%
  3. #28Qwen3.8 27B42.2%
  4. ~#29Granite 4.2 30BEstimated41.5%
  5. #29Nex-N2.5-Mini36.1%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
~#29 of 84 (estimated)~2.8%
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.559.6%
  3. #28Gemini 3.1 Pro4.0%
  4. ~#29Granite 4.2 30BEstimated2.8%
  5. #29GPT-5.4 mini2.0%
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks
~last of 15 (estimated)below measured range (<41.1)
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.162.2
  3. #14GPT-6 Luna41.1
  4. ~#15Granite 4.2 30BEstimated<41.1
No published score — estimated from related benchmarks

Hard reasoning

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