Model comparison
Granite 4.2 3b vs QwQ-32B
Granite 4.2 3b and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 3b scores higher in 2 categories and QwQ-32B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 39.2.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.4 | 39.8 |
| Released | — | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 11 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1306 | 1325 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.2 3b: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
Knowledge Too close to call
Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1315 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
Multilingual QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1269 | 1378 |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | 1297 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1273 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
Long Context QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1291 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1293 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1205 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 3b better than QwQ-32B?
Granite 4.2 3b and QwQ-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 39.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 4.2 3b or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and QwQ-32B share?
11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.