# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Granite 4.2 8B

> Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-granite-4-2-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.3 to 40.3.
- Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 40.5 |
| Rank | 164 | 148 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.06 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1380 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1329 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1384 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1302 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1366 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1285 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1301 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1324 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1320 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1236 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1301 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.5 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (40.6 vs 40.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.