Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 4.2 3b
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 7 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 24.5.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1361 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1306 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1315 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1249 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1273 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1291 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1293 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1205 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1290 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 4.2 3b?
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus and Granite 4.2 3b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.