# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Granite 4.2 30b

> Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-granite-4-2-30b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.2 30b in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 30b leads 39.1 to 26.2.
- Granite 4.2 30b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 41.8 |
| Rank | 246 | 130 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 41.0 (#126)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1261 | 1396 |
| WeirdML | 24.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
- Granite 4.2 30b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 27.8 (#112)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1374 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.36 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
- Granite 4.2 30b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 39.1 (#138)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1406 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
- Granite 4.2 30b: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 47.3 (#151)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1340 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1414 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1343 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | — |
| LMArena German | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1221 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1243 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 71.2 (#155)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1347 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 41.4 (#140)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1359 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
- Granite 4.2 30b: 53.8 (#156)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 30b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1361 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1339 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Granite 4.2 30b?

Granite 4.2 30b is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.8 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Granite 4.2 30b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 30b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.0 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Granite 4.2 30b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 30b has 11.