# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Granite 4.2 8B

> Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-pro-vs-granite-4-2-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.2 8B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.2 8B leads 25.5 to 12.3.
- Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 40.0 |
| Rank | 253 | 143 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.06 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 39.9 (#138)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1379 |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 25.5 (#130)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1327 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 37.7 (#144)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1380 |
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)
- Granite 4.2 8B: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | — |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#173)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1299 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1361 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1283 |
| LMArena French | 1301 | — |
| LMArena German | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1310 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1298 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 40.2 (#154)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1323 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)
- Granite 4.2 8B: 49.8 (#183)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1238 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1299 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.0 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Granite 4.2 8B better for coding?

Granite 4.2 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.9 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Granite 4.2 8B share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 8B has 11.