ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro vs ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
For 100,000 calls of 2,000 in and 500 out, ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro is cheaper: $9.00 a month at OpenRouter, against $24.50 for ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b at OpenRouter — 2.7× the cost.
Cheapest on each
ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro
$9.00/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.017 in, $0.112 out per million
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
$24.50/mo
cheapest, at OpenRouter — $0.06 in, $0.25 out per million
Aligned facts
Same rows on both sides, including the ones we cannot fill.
| Attribute | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro | ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Accepts | Aa | Aa |
| Sellers | 1 | 1 |
| Cheapest input rate | $0.017 / M | $0.06 / M |
| Cached input rate | ○ no answer | $0.015 / M |
No quality or benchmark row appears here. We hold no throughput or accuracy measurement for either model, and a cost-per-quality figure built from a lab’s own claim would look authoritative and mean nothing.
Cost for this workload — both models, every seller
100,000 calls a month · 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each. Sellers of both models lead, cheapest combined cost first.
| Seller | ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro /mo | ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b /mo |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $9.002026-10-26 | $24.502026-10-27 |
Cheapest tier per seller, this workload only. In and output rates, and a cached prefix, are broken out in the cost calculator.