Granite 4.2 3B
Explore Granite 4.2 3B from IBM: published specifications, source-linked vendor benchmarks, independent evaluator coverage and recorded pricing when available.
Compare Granite 4.2 3B with other models →Compare subscription plansExplore data coverage
Pricing · OpenRouter
No OpenRouter pricing is recorded for this model. Missing rates are not free.
Official / vendor benchmarks
Default headline records. Own-vendor, peer-vendor and third-party provenance remain visible in evidence; configurations may differ.
| Benchmark / evaluator | Headline score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| τ³-bench (overall) | 45.8%unknown effort | The recorded result & source45.8% · raw 45.78 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “τ³-bench (AVG)”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Average over τ³-bench domains; domain mix unstated. A different τ³-bench row (50.99 / 66.34 / 68.05) is commented out of the card source and not displayed, so it is not stored. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| BFCL v4 (overall) | 52.4%unknown effort | The recorded result & source52.4% · raw 52.41 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “BFCL (v4)”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Overall score as labelled. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| ProfBench (search setting unstated) | 32.1%unknown effort | The recorded result & source32.1% · raw 32.1 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “ProfBench”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Search setting unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| AIME 2025 | 78.3%unknown effort | The recorded result & source78.3% · raw 78.33 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “AIME25”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| HMMT February 2025 | 66.7%unknown effort | The recorded result & source66.7% · raw 66.67 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “HMMT Feb25”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| GPQA (IBM Granite card; subset unstated) | 54.8%unknown effort | The recorded result & source54.8% · raw 54.8 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “GPQA”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. GPQA subset unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.7%unknown effort | The recorded result & source69.7% · raw 69.71 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “LiveCodeBench v6”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| SciCode (IBM Granite card; aggregation unstated) | 24.1%unknown effort | The recorded result & source24.1% · raw 24.11 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “SciCode”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Subproblem or main-problem aggregation unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8%unknown effort | The recorded result & source67.8% · raw 67.84 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “MMLU-Pro”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| MMLU-ProX Lite (IBM) | 27.8%unknown effort | The recorded result & source27.8% · raw 27.78 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “MMLU-ProX lite (IBM)”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Languages unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| Arena-Hard v2 (IBM Granite card) | 35%unknown effort | The recorded result & source35% · raw 34.96 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “Arena-Hard-V2”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Judge, baseline and style control unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| IFBench | 74.3%unknown effort | The recorded result & source74.3% · raw 74.33 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “IFBench (prompt)”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Prompt-level accuracy; strict or loose unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| RULER 64K (IBM Granite card) | 67.5%unknown effort | The recorded result & source67.5% · raw 67.52 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “RULER 64K”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
| RULER 128K (IBM Granite card) | 55.3%unknown effort | The recorded result & source55.3% · raw 55.3 % Headline · unknown effort · Own vendor Source/record date: 2026-08-25 IBM Granite 4.2 3B card (revision 4e9c275e232f), evaluation table row “RULER 128K”, column “3B Dense”. IBM evaluates with a framework based on NVIDIA’s NeMo Evaluator SDK; thinking mode, effort, sampling and repeats for this table are unstated. Execution date unpublished. https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b |
Independent evaluators
Evaluator harnesses are distinct from vendor measurements. Missing coverage is not a failed test.
| Benchmark / evaluator | Headline score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Index v5.0.1 · Artificial Analysis | 5unknown effort | The recorded result & source5 · raw 5 index Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Intelligence Index v5.0.1 (AA changelog, 3 November 2026: v5.0 with CritPt v2 regraded); never compared with v5.0 or v4.3.2 rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public Intelligence Index evaluation page (title "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1"), "Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Score" chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_index_score.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index |
| Output tokens per Intelligence Index v5.0.1 task · Artificial Analysis | 34 k tokens/taskunknown effort | The recorded result & source34 k tokens/task · raw 34 k tokens/task Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Thousands of output tokens per task as displayed. Observed on the v5.0.1 page; bound to Intelligence Index v5.0.1 and never compared with v5.0 rows (five of the stored v5.0 cost and token values differ on the v5.0.1 page). AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public Intelligence Index v5.0.1 evaluation page, "Output Tokens per Task" stacked chart (reasoning plus answer total label), 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_index_tokens.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index |
| CritPt v2 Hard Subset (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0% · raw 0 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 CritPt v2 hard subset as regraded by AA on 3 November 2026; not the full set or the earlier CritPt (AA) rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public CritPt v2 evaluation page, "Hard Subset" view, after AA's 3 November 2026 regrade, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_critpt_v2_hard.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/critpt-v2?critpt-subset=hard |
| AutomationBench (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0.4%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0.4% · raw 0.4 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AutomationBench-AA evaluation page, Score chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_automationbench.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/automationbench-aa |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 Elo · Artificial Analysis | 99unknown effort | The recorded result & source99 · raw 99 Elo Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Briefcase evaluation page, combined Elo chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_briefcase_elo.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 analytical quality Elo · Artificial Analysis | 0unknown effort | The recorded result & source0 · raw 0 Elo Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Briefcase evaluation page, "Analytical Quality & Presentation Elo" tab (Analytical Quality series), 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_briefcase_quality_presentation.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase?results=quality-elos |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 presentation Elo · Artificial Analysis | 0unknown effort | The recorded result & source0 · raw 0 Elo Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Briefcase evaluation page, "Analytical Quality & Presentation Elo" tab (Presentation series), 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_briefcase_quality_presentation.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase?results=quality-elos |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 rubric pass rate · Artificial Analysis | 4.7%unknown effort | The recorded result & source4.7% · raw 4.7 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Briefcase evaluation page, "Rubric Score (%)" tab, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_briefcase_rubric.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase?results=rubric-score |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1 Index · Artificial Analysis | -18unknown effort | The recorded result & source-18 · raw -18 index Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Signed knowledge index; v1.1 (3,000 questions) is not comparable with v1.0 rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Omniscience evaluation page, "AA-Omniscience v1.1: Net Score" chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_omniscience.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1 accuracy · Artificial Analysis | 9%unknown effort | The recorded result & source9% · raw 9 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Not comparable with v1.0 rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Omniscience evaluation page, accuracy chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_omniscience.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience |
| AA-Omniscience v1.1 hallucination rate · Artificial Analysis | 30%unknown effort | The recorded result & source30% · raw 30 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Lower is better; not comparable with v1.0 rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public AA-Omniscience evaluation page, hallucination rate chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_omniscience.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0% · raw 0 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 evaluation page, Score chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_tbscience.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminal-bench-science |
| FrontierCode 2.0 (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0% · raw 0 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA harness; not Cognition board rows. AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public FrontierCode 2.0 evaluation page, Score chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_frontiercode2.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/frontiercode-2-0 |
| HLE-Diamond (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 2.9%unknown effort | The recorded result & source2.9% · raw 2.9 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 Not Humanity's Last Exam (AA). AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public HLE-Diamond evaluation page, Score chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_hle_diamond.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/hle-diamond |
| GDP.PDF (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0.2%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0.2% · raw 0.2 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public GDP.pdf evaluation page, "All-pass Rate" tab, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_gdppdf.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdp-pdf |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) · Artificial Analysis | 0%unknown effort | The recorded result & source0% · raw 0 % Headline · unknown effort · Independent evaluator Source/record date: 2026-11-05 AA's label states no reasoning effort. Manual observation of Artificial Analysis's public Terminal-Bench 4.0 evaluation page, Score chart, 5 November 2026 (106 configurations selected with ?models=; rendered bar label paired with the x-axis model link; research-raw/aa-v5.0.1-2026-11-05/cap_tb4.txt). Configuration "Granite 4.2 3B". AA's displayed rounding; no API, download, hidden precision or inferred run date. https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminalbench-4-0 |
Read how we select and source scores or the comparison guide.