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IBM Granite 4.2 8B reaches OpenRouter with a 131K context window

OpenRouter added a paid route for IBM Granite 4.2 8B on 31 August. The hosted endpoint exposes a 131,072-token context window, reasoning and tool calling, six days after IBM released the open model family.

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IBM Granite 4.2 Model availability

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