Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Granite 4.2 3b
Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 25.0 to 18.8.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 39.0 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1363 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Claude Instant: 18.8, Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1308 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1313 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1249 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1271 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1293 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1295 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1293 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Granite 4.2 3b?
Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Granite 4.2 3b share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.