Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.1 mini vs Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 mini OpenAI

33.6

Rank #240 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 26.6 to 10.8.
  • Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $1.60 for GPT-4.1 mini.
  • GPT-4.1 mini accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
ProviderOpenAIIBM
Noometry Index33.640.5
Released2025-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output33K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$0.06
Output $ / M tokens$1.60$0.25
Results tracked4711

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 30.6 (#293), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Coding13671380
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)23.9%—
Aider Polyglot32.4%—
SciCode40.4%—
WeirdML37.6%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.9%—
CadEval16%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 33.3 (#55), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard50.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 10.8 (#340), Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13491329
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%—
ARC-AGI-13.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles7%—
DTBench68.8%—
LMCA21.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index135.01—

Math Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 24.1 (#270), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202544.7%—
Omni-MATH49.1%—
LMArena Math1343—
MATH Level 587.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#194), Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Expert13381384
GPQA Diamond65.8%—
SimpleQA Verified12.7%—
MMLU-Pro78.3%—
GPQA (HELM)61.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.1 mini: 35.8 (#82), Granite 4.2 8B: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Vision1181—

Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 45.7 (#166), Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Non-English13181302
LMArena Chinese13291366
LMArena Russian13241285
LMArena French1358—
LMArena German1351—
LMArena Japanese1290—
LMArena Korean1298—
LMArena Spanish1319—

Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 73.7 (#118), Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Instruction Following13331301
IFEval90.4%—

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#275), Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Longer Query13441324
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

GPT-4.1 mini: 48.6 (#199), Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

BenchmarkGPT-4.1 miniGranite 4.2 8B
LMArena Text13401320
LMArena Creative Writing13001236
LMArena Multi-Turn13541301
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1147—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 mini or Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 mini lists at $0.40 and $1.60.

Is GPT-4.1 mini or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.5 versus 30.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 mini does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.

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