Model comparison
Amazon Nova Pro vs Granite 4.2 30b
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 39.1 to 27.4.
- Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 41.8 |
| Released | 2024-12-03 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 300K | — |
| Max output | 10K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.80 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $3.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 38 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1396 |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243), Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1374 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250), Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1406 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | — |
Multilingual Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1340 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1343 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | — |
| LMArena German | 1243 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1347 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |
Long Context Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1359 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 30b leads
Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226), Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156)
| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1361 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Granite 4.2 30b?
Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Amazon Nova Pro or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?
Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.0 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Granite 4.2 30b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.