$ diff granite-4-2 grok-4-6
Granite 4.2 vs Grok 4.6
Values come from Granite 4.2 and Grok 4.6, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing.
IBMGranite 4.2
- context
- 512K
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- —
- $/M out
- —
- context
- 500K
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $2
- $/M out
- $6
What actually differs
- Context window
- Granite 4.2 takes 512K against 500K — modestly more room in a single request.
- Weights
- Granite 4.2 publishes weights (Apache 2.0); Grok 4.6 is API-only. That decides self-hosting, air-gapped deployment and fine-tuning before any capability question does.
- Recency
- Granite 4.2 shipped 18 days after Grok 4.6 (2026-08-25 vs 2026-08-07).
Full spec
| Attribute | Granite 4.2 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | IBM | xAI |
| Released | 2026-08-25 | 2026-08-07 |
| Context window | 512K (30B); unknown (3B, 8B) | 500,000 tokens |
| Pricing | not applicable — open weights, no hosted rate published | $2/M input · $6/M output; a request reaching 200K tokens re-prices in full at $4.00/M input · $1.00/M cached input · $12.00/M output |
| License | Apache 2.0 | proprietary |
| Availability | Hugging Face, Ollama, GitHub | API |