Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Granite 4.2 30b

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 30b IBM

41.8

Rank #130 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 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 reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 53.8 to 27.8.
  • Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 4.2 30b specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index58.341.8
Released2026-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6611

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Coding15181396
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Granite 4.2 30b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Hard Prompts15061374
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Granite 4.2 30b: —

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Expert15211406
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Granite 4.2 30b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Non-English14801340
LMArena Chinese15311414
LMArena Russian14941343
LMArena French1503—
LMArena German1495—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Spanish1495—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Instruction Following14981347

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Longer Query15051359

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Text14901361
LMArena Creative Writing14861288
LMArena Multi-Turn15051339
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Granite 4.2 30b?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 41.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 4.2 30b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.

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