Model comparison
Granite 4.2 3b vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Side by side
| Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | — |
| Released | — | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 11 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1308 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.93 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: —, Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1313 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1268 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1271 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1293 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1295 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1215 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1293 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 3b better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?
Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.