Model comparison

Granite 4.2 8B vs Llama 4 Scout

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 11 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.0

Rank #143 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout

Summary

They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 8B scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 39.9 to 19.9.
Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $0.10 / $0.30 for Llama 4 Scout.
Granite 4.2 8B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Granite 4.2 8B and Llama 4 Scout specifications
	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
Provider	IBM	Meta
Noometry Index	40.0	27.4
Released	—	2025-04-05
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	131K	128K
Max output	118K	4K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.06	$0.10
Output $ / M tokens	$0.25	$0.30
Results tracked	11	43

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 39.9 (#138), Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding	1379	1286
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)	—	9.1%
SciCode	—	17%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	43.1%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	28.1%

Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 25.5 (#130), Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts	1327	1266
ARC-AGI-2	—	0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	36.9%
ARC-AGI-1	—	0.5%
CritPt	—	0%
DTBench	—	57.9%
LMCA	—	12%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	129.64
ForecastBench	—	57.5

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	7.8%
Omni-MATH	—	37.3%
LMArena Math	—	1286
MATH Level 5	—	62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)	—	0%

Knowledge Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 37.7 (#144), Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Expert	1380	1236
GPQA Diamond	—	51.8%
MMLU-Pro	—	74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	7.7%
GPQA (HELM)	—	50.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision	—	1118
SpatialViz-Bench	—	34.2%

Multilingual Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#173), Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English	1299	1253
LMArena Chinese	1361	1256
LMArena Russian	1283	1263
LMArena French	—	1283
LMArena German	—	1274
LMArena Japanese	—	1209
LMArena Korean	—	1207
LMArena Spanish	—	1277

Instruction Following Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#183), Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following	1298	1248
IFEval	—	81.8%

Long Context Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 40.2 (#154), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query	1323	1265
Fiction.LiveBench	—	36%

Writing & Preference Granite 4.2 8B leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 49.8 (#183), Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Text	1319	1279
LMArena Creative Writing	1238	1249
LMArena Multi-Turn	1299	1281
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	783
WildBench	—	78%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.2 8B better than Llama 4 Scout?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Granite 4.2 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout lists at $0.10 and $0.30.

Is Granite 4.2 8B or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Granite 4.2 8B does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 8B and Llama 4 Scout share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.