Model comparison
Granite 4.2 8B vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 26.6 to 20.7.
- Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
Side by side
| Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.5 | 29.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Max output | 118K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.06 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.25 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 11 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning Granite 4.2 8B leads
Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1329 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1384 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1302 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1285 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1301 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1324 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1320 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1301 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.2 8B better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.2 8B or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 131K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 8B and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.