Model comparison
Granite 4.2 3b vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 3b scores higher in 5 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 39.2 to 26.4.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 30.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.32 |
| Results tracked | 11 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1268 |
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| WeirdML | — | 14.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1306 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.8% |
| DTBench | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.33 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 50.2% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1267 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |
Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1315 | 1225 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.1% |
| MMLU | — | 86.3% |
Multilingual Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1269 | 1217 |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | 1252 |
| LMArena French | — | 1281 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1143 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1270 |
Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1273 | 1242 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 82.7% |
Long Context Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1291 | 1256 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1293 | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1205 | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1280 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 3b better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.2 3b or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?
Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.