Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus 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 38.4 to 24.5.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.540.5
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.06
Output $ / M tokens—$0.25
Results tracked4611

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding12641380
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451329
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert12231384
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English12581302
LMArena Chinese12481366
LMArena Russian12801285
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following12481301
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query12591324

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text12621320
LMArena Creative Writing12351236
LMArena Multi-Turn12751301
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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