IBM Granite 4.2 8B
IBM's 8B dense foundation model for general instruction-following, RAG, and code tasks, with native tool use.
Granite 4.2 8B is an open-weight text model built by IBM. It takes a text prompt and replies with generated text. It runs entirely on your own hardware through Ollama: no API key and no per-use fees.
- Released
- Aug 2026
- Pricing
- Free, runs on your hardware
IBM
IBM Research builds the open-weight Granite family — efficient foundation models tuned for enterprise instruction-following, RAG, code, and tool use.
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