# Granite 4.2 3b vs o1

> o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 39.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 11

## Summary

- They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 3b scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 39.3.
- Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | 40.6 |
| Rank | 163 | 140 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146)
- o1: 45.7 (#64)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Granite 4.2 3b: —
- o1: 24.3 (#111)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136)
- o1: 27.5 (#103)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1308 | 1372 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.92 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Granite 4.2 3b: —
- o1: 34.9 (#150)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169)
- o1: 41.5 (#101)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1313 | 1362 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |

## Multimodal

- Granite 4.2 3b: —
- o1: 33.6 (#87)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193)
- o1: 48.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | 1359 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1268 | 1394 |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | — | 1343 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195)
- o1: 75.0 (#82)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1271 | 1368 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1293 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202)
- o1: 55.8 (#139)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1295 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1215 | 1347 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1293 | 1368 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.2 3b better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 39.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Granite 4.2 3b or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 39.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and o1 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.