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Granite 4.2 8B vs Granite 4.2 30B
Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.
| Granite 4.2 8B | Granite 4.2 30B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | IBM |
| Parameters | 8.8B | 29.3B |
| Context window | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. |
| License | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Modalities | text | text |
| Release date | 07 Aug 2026 | 07 Aug 2026 |
| Languages | Strong: en, de, es, fr, pt, cs, it, nl Adequate: ja, ar, ko, zh, ibm | Strong: en, de, es, fr, pt, cs, it, nl Adequate: ja, ar, ko, zh, ibm |
| Open weights | yes | yes |
| Tasks | Multilingual support, Retrieval (RAG), Summarisation | Multilingual support, Reasoning, Retrieval (RAG) |
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When to use it
Granite 4.2 8B
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 8.8B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- the model page lists 8 languages the European Union publishes in, including en, de, es, fr
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 8.8B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator
Tasks
Granite 4.2 30B
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- the model page lists 8 languages the European Union publishes in, including en, de, es, fr
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 29.3B parameters, self-hosting needs a single accelerator with enough memory for the weights
Tasks
Tasks: Multilingual support, Retrieval (RAG)