Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Granite 4.2 3b

Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 3b IBM

39.4

Rank #169 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 18.7.
  • Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.239.4
Released2024-10-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4911

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Coding12861361
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Hard Prompts12511306
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%—
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Expert12081315
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Non-English12381268
LMArena Chinese12291269
LMArena Russian12531249
LMArena French1264—
LMArena German1237—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1173—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Instruction Following12411273
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Longer Query12611291

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 3b leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 3b
LMArena Text12551293
LMArena Creative Writing12331205
LMArena Multi-Turn12651290
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Granite 4.2 3b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Granite 4.2 3b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.

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