Model comparison

Granite 4.2 30b vs Mistral Large

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 11 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.2 30b IBM

41.8

Rank #130 Confirmed

Mistral Large

Mistral AI

31.9

Rank #263 Confirmed

Summary

They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 30b scores higher in 7 categories and Mistral Large in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 53.8 to 40.7.

Side by side

Granite 4.2 30b and Mistral Large specifications
	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
Provider	IBM	Mistral AI
Noometry Index	41.8	31.9
Released	—	2024-02-26
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	131K
Max output	—	16K
Input $ / M tokens	—	$2
Output $ / M tokens	—	$6
Results tracked	11	51

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126), Mistral Large: 34.3 (#240)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Coding	1396	1277
SciCode	—	36.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	30%
LiveBench Coding	—	47.1%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	38.3%
ALE-Bench	—	264.7
HumanEval+	—	62.2%
MBPP+	—	59.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.2 30b: —, Mistral Large: 28.6 (#89)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	38.4%

Reasoning Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112), Mistral Large: 15.8 (#310)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Hard Prompts	1374	1257
SimpleBench	—	22.5%
CritPt	—	0%
LiveBench Reasoning	—	43.5%
DTBench	—	65.1%
LiveBench Data Analysis	—	50.1%
LMCA	—	16.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	128.52
ForecastBench	—	57.1
LiveBench	—	48.4%

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.2 30b: —, Mistral Large: 18.2 (#291)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	8.5%
Omni-MATH	—	28.1%
LiveBench Math	—	42.5%
LMArena Math	—	1262
MATH Level 5	—	50.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0.3%

Knowledge Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138), Mistral Large: 30.1 (#230)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Expert	1406	1232
GPQA Diamond	—	51.3%
MMLU-Pro	—	59.9%
Confabulations	—	21.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	4.5%
GPQA (HELM)	—	43.5%
MMLU	—	80%

Multilingual Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151), Mistral Large: 40.0 (#219)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Non-English	1340	1237
LMArena Chinese	1414	1240
LMArena Russian	1343	1257
LMArena French	—	1325
LMArena German	—	1254
LMArena Japanese	—	1188
LMArena Korean	—	1202
LMArena Spanish	—	1268

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155), Mistral Large: 67.9 (#191)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Instruction Following	1347	1249
LiveBench Instruction Following	—	67.9%
IFEval	—	87.7%

Long Context Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140), Mistral Large: 38.3 (#199)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Longer Query	1359	1261

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 30b leads

Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156), Mistral Large: 40.7 (#242)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 30b	Mistral Large
LMArena Text	1361	1266
LMArena Creative Writing	1288	1243
LMArena Multi-Turn	1339	1260
Short-Story Creative Writing	—	69%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	985
WildBench	—	80.1%
LiveBench Language	—	39.4%

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