Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

28.9

Rank #309 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.0

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 37.7 to 18.7.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index28.940.0
Released2024-10-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.06
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked4911

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), Granite 4.2 8B: 39.9 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding12871379
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), Granite 4.2 8B: 25.5 (#130)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12511327
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
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 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), Granite 4.2 8B: 37.7 (#144)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert12081380
GPQA Diamond38.1%—
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#173)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English12381299
LMArena Chinese12291361
LMArena Russian12531283
LMArena French1262—
LMArena German1237—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1172—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following12411298
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.2 (#154)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query12611323

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.8 (#183)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text12551319
LMArena Creative Writing12331238
LMArena Multi-Turn12651299
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 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 32.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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