Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Granite 4.2 8B?

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Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Granite 4.2 8B?: Across 10 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 8B on 1. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Claude Opus 4.6 scores 57.3 against 19.1.

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Granite 4.2 8B

Across 10 shared benchmarks, Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 8B on 1. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Claude Opus 4.6 scores 57.3 against 19.1.

AnthropicvsIBM10 shared benchmarks9–1 head-to-head

Benchmark	Claude Opus 4.6	Granite 4.2 8B
AIME25 no tools	95.6	86.7
gdpval	55.9	1189
GPQA Diamond	91.3	64.1
LiveCodeBench v6	88.8	73.2
MMLU-Pro	89.1	74
scicode	52	36.1
SWE-bench Multilingual	77.8	30.8
SWE-bench Pro	57.3	19.1
SWE-bench Verified	80.8	47.7
τ³-Bench	72.4	66.3

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.