Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Granite 4.2 30b

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

32.9

Rank #240 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 30b IBM

41.4

Rank #126 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 38.5 to 26.2.
  • Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index32.941.4
Released2024-05-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4211

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233), Granite 4.2 30b: 40.4 (#127)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Coding12621394
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212), Granite 4.2 30b: 26.7 (#114)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Hard Prompts12571375
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.37—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253), Granite 4.2 30b: 38.5 (#134)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Expert12331405
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76), Granite 4.2 30b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184), Granite 4.2 30b: 47.4 (#146)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Non-English12781340
LMArena Chinese12951415
LMArena Russian12881342
LMArena French1257—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1220—
LMArena Spanish1242—

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199), Granite 4.2 30b: 71.3 (#150)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Instruction Following12581346
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182), Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#135)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Longer Query12841359

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 30b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190), Granite 4.2 30b: 54.3 (#147)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 30b
LMArena Text12871363
LMArena Creative Writing12851294
LMArena Multi-Turn12531340
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Granite 4.2 30b?

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Granite 4.2 30b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.

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