# Claude 3 Haiku vs Granite 4.2 3b

> Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 17.3.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 340 | 169 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1361 |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1306 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319)
- Granite 4.2 3b: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1315 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128)
- Granite 4.2 3b: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1269 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1249 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | — |
| LMArena German | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1273 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1291 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291)
- Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1293 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1205 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1290 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Haiku or Granite 4.2 3b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Granite 4.2 3b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.