IBM Granite 4.2 8B vs Sakana Namazu: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
IBM Granite 4.2 8B is developed by IBM, while Sakana Namazu comes from Sakana AI. Both were released in August 2026. IBM Granite 4.2 8B has a published size of about 8 billion parameters; Sakana AI has not disclosed the parameter count of Sakana Namazu.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Sakana Namazu leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on LiveCodeBench v6, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 73.2%; MMLU-Pro, where Sakana Namazu scores 90.3% against 74.0%. Averaged across everything we track, IBM Granite 4.2 8B sits at 56.7% and Sakana Namazu at 92.4%.
Sakana Namazu is available through an API at $0.95 per million input tokens with a 256K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for IBM Granite 4.2 8B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | IBM Granite 4.2 8B | Sakana Namazu |
|---|---|---|
| Company | IBM | Sakana AI |
| Release Date | August 25, 2026 | August 3, 2026 |
| Parameters | 8B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.95 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $4.00 |
| Average Score | 56.7% | 92.4% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 73.2% | 90.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.0% | 90.3% |
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Verdict
IBM Granite 4.2 8B leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: IBM Granite 4.2 8B — 0.6, Sakana Namazu — 0.9.
IBM Granite 4.2 8B is newer: released 8/25/2026 vs 8/3/2026.
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