Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Granite 4.2 3B?

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Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Granite 4.2 3B?: Across 6 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on 6 and Granite 4.2 3B on 0. The widest gap is scicode, where Claude Opus 4.6 scores 52 against 24.1.

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Granite 4.2 3B

Across 6 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on 6 and Granite 4.2 3B on 0. The widest gap is scicode, where Claude Opus 4.6 scores 52 against 24.1.

AnthropicvsIBM6 shared benchmarks6–0 head-to-head

Benchmark	Claude Opus 4.6	Granite 4.2 3B
AIME25 no tools	95.6	78.3
GPQA Diamond	91.3	54.8
LiveCodeBench v6	88.8	69.7
MMLU-Pro	89.1	67.8
scicode	52	24.1
τ³-Bench	72.4	51

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.