Model comparison
GPT-4o mini vs Granite 4.2 3b
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 7 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 17.7.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2024-07-18 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1290 | 1361 |
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 43.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 17.4% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1306 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| DTBench | 54.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50% | — |
| LMCA | 10.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.56 | — |
| LiveBench | 41.3% | — |
| PIQA | 88.7% | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1267 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 52.6% | — |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | — |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads
GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | 1315 |
| GPQA Diamond | 37.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 37.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.7% | — |
| MMLU | 81.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), Granite 4.2 3b: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | — |
| Video-MME | 64.8% | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1266 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1265 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1275 | 1249 |
| LMArena French | 1297 | — |
| LMArena German | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1276 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.2 3b leads
GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1273 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 56.8% | — |
| IFEval | 78.2% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1291 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 3b leads
GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1286 | 1293 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1268 | 1205 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1285 | 1290 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 67.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 873 | — |
| WildBench | 79.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 28.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o mini better than Granite 4.2 3b?
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4o mini or Granite 4.2 3b better for coding?
Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and Granite 4.2 3b share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.