# Granite 4.2 3b vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.0 | — |
| Rank | 163 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.4 (#146)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1363 | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.2 3b: 25.0 (#136)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1308 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.93 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Granite 4.2 3b: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.2 3b: 35.6 (#169)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1313 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.2 3b: 42.4 (#193)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1268 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1268 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1249 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.2 3b: 67.2 (#195)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1271 | — |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.2 3b: 39.3 (#179)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1293 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.2 3b: 47.9 (#202)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3b | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1295 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1215 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1293 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.2 3b better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Granite 4.2 3b has enough public results to be ranked (#163); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 3b and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 3b has 11 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.