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Which is better, Granite 4.2 30B or Granite 4.2 8B?
Across 19 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 30B scores higher on 18 and Granite 4.2 8B on 1. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 33.3 against 19.1.

Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 8B

Across 19 shared benchmarks, Granite 4.2 30B scores higher on 18 and Granite 4.2 8B on 1. The widest gap is SWE-bench Pro, where Granite 4.2 30B scores 33.3 against 19.1.

IBMvsIBM19 shared benchmarks181 head-to-head
BenchmarkGranite 4.2 30BGranite 4.2 8B
AIME25 no tools89.286.7
Arena-Hard-V267.965.2
BFCL (v4)61.452.4
BirdBench41.941.1
gdpval12251189
GPQA Diamond66.464.1
HMMT Feb2589.278.3
IFBench (prompt)74.779.3
LiveCodeBench v675.873.2
MMLU-Pro77.674
MMLU-ProX lite (IBM)66.661.1
RULER 128K81.471.4
RULER 64K9081
scicode38.836.1
SWE-bench Multilingual41.930.8
SWE-bench Pro33.319.1
SWE-bench Verified5747.7
Terminal-Bench 2.129.220.6
τ³-Bench6866.3

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.