ibm-granite
Granite-4.2-8B is the mid-size reasoning model in the Granite 4.2 family. It delivers strong performance on reasoning-intensive tasks by leveraging built-in ... chain-of-thought.
Running this yourself: desktop gpu should be enough.
OpenRouter
Price record: 2026-10-03. Source: openrouter.
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Free access notes: Local Ollama runtime
Official provider access is separated from brokers and routers, so the lowest price does not get confused with the first-party route.
| Provider | Access | Primary Price | Output $/M | Speed | TTFT |
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| OpenRouterBest priced Source: openrouter | Broker / Router | $0.0600/M | $0.25 | --- | --- |