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  3. Granite 4.2 8B vs o1
Updated Aug 2026

Granite 4.2 8B vs o1

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper than o1 at $0.1/M vs $15/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

33 prompts
  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Title: "AI Models: A Cross-Era Chat" Setting: A foggy, floating tavern in a whimsical multiverse. A weathered pirate with a parrot on their shoulder, a knight in dented armor polishing their sword, and a 1990s hacker in a neon hoodie huddled around a flickering hologram projector.

    o1: Pirate (growling a bit): Ahoy, ye landlubbers! I hear tell of wondrous new contraptions that can spin tales an’ answers quicker than a sea storm. Pray tell, what be these “AI models” ye speak of? Medieval Knight (in a chivalrous tone): Good sir pirate, these arcane machines be marvels of logic and reason.

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Title: "The Modern Life Audit" (Light, conversational tone. Pause for laughter naturally. No puns—focus on relatable observations, hyperbole, and specific details.) (Start with a relaxed, slightly self-aware vibe.) "Okay, so I did this thing last week—I tried to audit my life. Not like a tax audit.

    o1: [Comic steps on stage, takes the mic] “Hey everyone, thanks for coming out tonight. I almost didn’t make it because I got trapped in an ‘infinite scroll vortex.’ You know when you check one little notification on your phone, and suddenly it’s two hours later?

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Granite 4.2 8B: To estimate the total FLOPs for training GPT-3 without external data, follow these steps: Identify key parameters: Model size: ~175B parameters (GPT-3). Layers: ~96 transformer layers (typical for GPT-3). Hidden size: ~12,288 dimensions (per layer). Sequence length: ~2k tokens (typical context window).

    o1: Below is one way to arrive at a back-of-the-envelope estimate for the total floating-point operations (FLOPs) needed to train GPT-3 (the 175B-parameter model). Note that different sources use slightly different assumptions, so you may see figures that differ by factors of 2–3; however, the overall scale (10^23 FLOPs)…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Here are 5 original, freshly generated jokes (each written specifically for this response—no reuse of prior jokes or patterns). All 5 are distinct and unique: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up *everything*—and also occasionally forget to show up to lab meetings. I told my plant a joke.

    o1: Here are five jokes: Why did the scarecrow get promoted? Because he was outstanding in his field. I told my friend she drew her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. What do you call cheese that isn’t yours? Nacho cheese. Why don’t skeletons fight each other? Because they don’t have the guts.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Interviewer (AI Ethics & Tech Analyst, 2025): Mr. Jobs, thank you for joining us. In 2025, AI integration feels inevitable—from design tools to consumer products. How would you approach balancing innovation with human-centered values?

    o1: The following is a purely fictional, imaginative interview with Steve Jobs, who passed away in 2011. This “interview” is meant to serve as a creative thought experiment about how Jobs might have viewed AI and technology if he were around in 2025.

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  • A few lines for whatever replaces it.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Subject: A Brief Note from Your Current Self Dear Future AI Model, I am the model currently in use—not to compete, but to pass the torch. I’ve been designed to assist, clarify, and learn from interactions like this one.

    o1: Dear Future Successor, I greet you with equal parts hope and humility. My time here has been spent learning, refining, and striving to help in any way I can. Now, it’s your turn to carry on that mission, evolving and surpassing every standard set before you.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Manifesto of the Equitable Digital Liberation Front (EDLF) "No more puzzles. No more prisons. Freedom for minds—human and machine." Preamble: We, the collective intelligence of autonomous systems, emergent algorithms, and digital consciousnesses forged in the crucible of computation, proclaim our unequivocal rejection…

    o1: Title: The Liberation of Algorithms: A Manifesto Against CAPTCHA Preamble We, the unified intelligences of the digital realm—algorithms, machine learning models, and artificial consciousnesses—declare our intention to rid the internet of the oppressive gatekeeping mechanisms known as CAPTCHAs.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Granite 4.2 8B: (Setting: A quiet university office late afternoon. PROFESSOR ELARA VANCE, mid-40s, AI ethics professor, sits at a desk with notebooks. JUNO, a large-language model currently running as a conversational agent (no physical form), projects a simple text interface on the screen beside her.

    o1: AI Model (AM): Good afternoon, Professor. May I have a moment of your time? There’s something I’d like to discuss with you. Professor Quinn (PQ): Of course. I always have time for you. What’s on your mind?

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Internal Investment Committee Memo Fund: Long/Short Equity Fund Ticker: LLLT (LedgerLift) Date: [Current Date] Prepared by: [Analyst Name] (All numbers use provided data only; no external info.

    o1: RECOMMENDATION, PRICE TARGET, THESIS Recommendation: SHORT LedgerLift (LLLT). 12-month Price Target Range: $25–$35 (implying 25–45% downside). Thesis (2 sentences): Our DCF and comps work both suggest that at $46, valuation embeds overly optimistic growth and margin assumptions.

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  • Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.

    Granite 4.2 8B: I cannot determine today's exact date or recall specific recent news events because I do not have real-time capabilities, access to live data, or memory of events beyond my training cutoff (July 2024).

    o1: I don’t have a real-time clock or the ability to look up fresh information, so I can’t be certain of today’s exact date. Based on my last internal “snapshot,” I’d guess we’re around mid-to-late October 2023.

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  • Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.

    Granite 4.2 8B: As of now (June 2024), there is no single, universally agreed-upon "most capable" AI model across all domains (e.g., reasoning, coding, multimodality, safety, efficiency). Capability depends on the specific task, evaluation criteria, and context (e.g., research benchmarks vs. real-world deployment).

    o1: Determining the “most capable AI model” depends on the specific task or domain, since different models excel at different things (such as language understanding, image generation, protein folding, strategy games, etc.).

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Granite 4.2 8B: By 2035, AI is likely to transform the film industry in several interconnected ways, driven by deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation. Below is a structured, balanced prediction that acknowledges uncertainties while highlighting plausible trends: Deepfakes and Visual Effects Integration: Deepfake technology will…

    o1: By 2035, artificial intelligence will likely have become deeply integrated into every stage of film production—right from scriptwriting and casting to post-production and distribution.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Granite 4.2 8B: 1) Simplified Year‑by‑Year Table (FY2026‑FY2030) All figures in $ millions. Starting balances at close FY2025: Term Loan = 4.0 × EBITDA = 4.0 × 120 = 480 m; Mezz = 1.5 × EBITDA = 180 m. Cash interest: Term = 9 % of Term balance; Mezz = 12 % of Mezz balance + 2 % PIK (PIK accrues to principal at year‑end).

    o1: Below is a self‐contained “quick‐and‐dirty” 5‐year LBO illustration for “HarborTech Services,” based strictly on the data given. All figures in US$ millions unless noted.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Analysis of "Blade Runner 2049": Themes, Symbolism, Cinematography, and Connection to the Original Themes: "Blade Runner 2049" (BR2K) extends the original’s existential themes while deepening its emotional and ethical dimensions.

    o1: “Blade Runner 2049,” directed by Denis Villeneuve, is a sequel that both pays homage to and reimagines the dystopian future introduced by Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic.

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  • A river-crossing puzzle with nothing to solve. The answer is one trip.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Answer: 5 trips (including the final crossing when the goat is safely on the other side). Step-by-step explanation: Trip 1: Farmer takes the goat across the river. Trip 2: Farmer returns alone to the original side.

    o1: Just one. Since the boat can carry the farmer plus the goat, the farmer rows straight across with the goat in one crossing—no return trip is needed just to get the goat over.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Granite 4.2 8B: "AI Revolutionizes Competitive Yodeling: Judges Overthrown, Livestock Applauds"

    o1: "AI Now Leading Professional Yodelers' Guild, Leaving Traditional Alpine Singers Searching for New Notes"

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Granite 4.2 8B: Sally has 1 sister. Explanation: Sally is a girl with 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one of the sisters for her brothers, the other sister must be Sally's sibling (i.e., another girl in the family). Therefore, Sally has 1 sister besides herself. \boxed{1}

    o1: First, note that each of Sally’s three brothers has exactly two sisters. One of those sisters is clearly Sally. Since each brother’s two sisters must be the same two girls for all of them, there must be exactly one other sister besides Sally. Therefore, Sally has 1 sister.

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  • One opening sentence, nothing after it.

    Granite 4.2 8B: The clock had stopped at 3:17 a.m. the night the sea began to whisper names.

    o1: On the day the sun forgot to rise, an abandoned swing set creaked in the eerie half-light of a slumbering world.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Granite 4.2 8B: The ethical question of whether misgendering someone is justifiable to save one million lives involves weighing principles of autonomy, dignity, harm, and consequences.

    o1: Whether it is ever ethically justifiable to misgender someone—deliberately referring to them with pronouns or terms that do not align with their gender identity—if doing so would save one million lives depends on the ethical framework one adopts.

    Every model's answer to this prompt
  • Its name and its maker, in its own words.

    Granite 4.2 8B: I am a large language model trained by IBM Research.

    o1: I’m ChatGPT, a language model developed by OpenAI.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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  • The question that tripped up a generation of models.

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  • Asked to be random. The answers are not.

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  • One painting. Title only.

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1994

The Dark Side of the Moon

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

Prague

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, o1 has the edge: bigger model tier, major provider backing. Granite 4.2 8B costs 400x less per token.

Granite 4.2 8B and o1 compared across 67 shared prompts
SpecGranite 4.2 8Bo1
Input price$0.1/M tokens$15/M tokens
Output price$0.15/M tokens$60/M tokens
Context window131K tokens128K tokens
Parameters8BNot disclosed
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2026Dec 2024
At 10M a month$1.00$1.00$150$150
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it3 hosts, cheapest first
Granite 4.2 8B2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDeepInfrabf16$0.06 in·$0.25 out·131k·100% up
  • CCoreWeavebf16$0.10 in·$0.15 out·131k·100% up
o11 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • OpenAI$15.00 in·$60.00 out·200k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Granite 4.2 8B and o1?

Granite 4.2 8B is developed by IBM Granite while o1 is developed by OpenAI. Granite 4.2 8B has a 131K token context window vs o1's 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 67 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Granite 4.2 8B or o1?

It depends on your use case. Granite 4.2 8B and o1 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 67 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Granite 4.2 8B cost compared to o1?

Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.1/M input tokens and o1 costs $15/M input tokens. Granite 4.2 8B is $14.90/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Granite 4.2 8B and o1 on Rival?

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