Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Granite 4.2 8B
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 38.4 to 16.9.
- Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 40.5 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.06 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.25 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1380 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1329 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Granite 4.2 8B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1384 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1302 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1285 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1301 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1320 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1301 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Granite 4.2 8B?
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Granite 4.2 8B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.