Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 vs Granite 4.2 30b
Claude Opus 4.1 and Granite 4.2 30b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.6 to 54.3.
- Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 41.4 |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | — |
| Results tracked | 48 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), Granite 4.2 30b: 40.4 (#127)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1479 | 1394 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | — |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 674.77 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.34 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 38% | — |
| GDPval | 43.6% | — |
| Cybench | 42% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1148 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.8% | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), Granite 4.2 30b: 26.7 (#114)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1375 |
| SimpleBench | 60% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 7.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 7.9% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 21% | — |
| DTBench | 80% | — |
| LMCA | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.11 | — |
| ForecastBench | 62 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 12.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1430 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 7.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), Granite 4.2 30b: 38.5 (#134)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1405 |
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 17.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), Granite 4.2 30b: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| VPCT | 35% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.4 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1340 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1415 |
| LMArena Russian | 1421 | 1342 |
| LMArena French | 1432 | — |
| LMArena German | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1381 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.3 (#150)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1436 | 1346 |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#135)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1455 | 1359 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), Granite 4.2 30b: 54.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1363 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1412 | 1294 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Granite 4.2 30b?
Claude Opus 4.1 and Granite 4.2 30b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 41.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 40.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Granite 4.2 30b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.