Which is better, DeepSeek-V3.2 or Granite 4.2 30B?

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Which is better, DeepSeek-V3.2 or Granite 4.2 30B?: Across 11 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 30B on 2. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 33.3 against 15.6.

DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Granite 4.2 30B

Across 11 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 30B on 2. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 33.3 against 15.6.

DeepSeekvsIBM11 shared benchmarks9–2 head-to-head

Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2	Granite 4.2 30B
AIME25 no tools	89.3	89.2
gdpval	18.8	1225
GPQA Diamond	84	66.4
LiveCodeBench v6	83.3	75.8
MMLU-Pro	86	77.6
scicode	39	38.8
SWE-bench Multilingual	70.2	41.9
SWE-bench Pro	15.6	33.3
SWE-bench Verified	73.1	57
Terminal-Bench 2.1	46.8	29.2
τ³-Bench	69.2	68

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.