Which is better, DeepSeek-V3.2 or Granite 4.2 8B?

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Which is better, DeepSeek-V3.2 or Granite 4.2 8B?: Across 11 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 8B on 2. The widest gap is SWE-bench Multilingual, where DeepSeek-V3.2 scores 70.2 against 30.8.

DeepSeek-V3.2 vs Granite 4.2 8B

Across 11 shared benchmarks, DeepSeek-V3.2 scores higher on 9 and Granite 4.2 8B on 2. The widest gap is SWE-bench Multilingual, where DeepSeek-V3.2 scores 70.2 against 30.8.

DeepSeekvsIBM11 shared benchmarks9–2 head-to-head

Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.2	Granite 4.2 8B
AIME25 no tools	89.3	86.7
gdpval	18.8	1189
GPQA Diamond	84	64.1
LiveCodeBench v6	83.3	73.2
MMLU-Pro	86	74
scicode	39	36.1
SWE-bench Multilingual	70.2	30.8
SWE-bench Pro	15.6	19.1
SWE-bench Verified	73.1	47.7
Terminal-Bench 2.1	46.8	20.6
τ³-Bench	69.2	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.