$ diff granite-4-2 longcat-2-0
Granite 4.2 vs LongCat-2.0
Values come from Granite 4.2 and LongCat-2.0, 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
- 1M
- weights
- open
- $/M in
- $0.3
- $/M out
- $1.2
What actually differs
- Context window
- LongCat-2.0 takes 1M against 512K — modestly more room in a single request.
- Weights
- Both publish weights — Granite 4.2 under Apache 2.0, LongCat-2.0 under MIT (commercially permissive). Check the licences rather than assuming they permit the same commercial use.
- Recency
- Granite 4.2 shipped 56 days after LongCat-2.0 (2026-08-25 vs 2026-06-30).
Full spec
| Attribute | Granite 4.2 | LongCat-2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | IBM | Meituan |
| Released | 2026-08-25 | 2026-06-30 |
| Context window | 512K (30B); unknown (3B, 8B) | 1 million tokens (LongCat Sparse Attention / LSA) |
| Pricing | not applicable — open weights, no hosted rate published | $0.30/M input · $1.20/M output ($0.006/M cached input) — OpenRouter catalogue, read 2026-07-28. Open weights, so this is hosted-inference pricing rather than a licence fee. |
| License | Apache 2.0 | MIT (commercially permissive) |
| Availability | Hugging Face, Ollama, GitHub | Open-sourced 2026-06-30; previously served on OpenRouter under the codename "Owl Alpha" |