# Claude Instant vs Granite 4.2 3b

> Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-granite-4-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 25.0 to 18.8.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 39.0 |
| Rank | — | 163 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1363 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1308 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: —

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1313 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1268 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1249 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1271 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1293 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.2 3b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1295 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1293 |

## FAQ

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

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.