Granite 4.2 8B

Granite 4.2 8B is a reasoning model from IBM in the Granite 4.2 family. 22 benchmarks count toward its score, in 6 categories.

availableShows if the model has enough results for an index.
IndexOverall score out of 100.37.6 ±4.9
CoverageShare of the index weight with results.85%
SpeedOutput tokens per second.51/s
Input / 1MUS dollars per 1M input tokens.$0.06
Output / 1MUS dollars per 1M output tokens.$0.25
ContextMaximum tokens in one request.131K
EloLMArena rating and rank.1317 (#225)

The index is a score out of 100. The ± range shows how much it can change.

3,087 votes. Elo shows what people prefer. It does not change the score.

CapabilitiesScore per category, out of 100.

Out of 100
AgenticMulti-step tasks with tools.
38.7
CodingCode writing and repair.
36.5
ReasoningLogic problems and puzzles.
39.2
MultimodalTasks with images and text.
N/A
KnowledgeFacts and expert knowledge.
34.5
MultilingualTasks in many languages.
N/A
InstructionTasks with strict rules in the prompt.
58.4
MathMath problems.
41.9

Results

22 counted
BenchmarkThe test name.CategoryThe capability that the test measures.ResultThe score from the publisher.IndexThis result as a score out of 100.RunThe settings of the run.DateDate of the result.Published byThe source of the result.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination 2025Math86.7%45.1Mathematical Association of America
Instruction Following BenchmarkInstruction79.3%58.4Benchmark authors
Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament February 2025Math78.3%38.7Qwen
Massive Multitask Language Understanding ProfessionalKnowledge74.0%37.1Yubo Wang et al.
LiveCodeBench v6Coding73.2%43.7LiveCodeBench maintainers
Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&AKnowledge64.1%37.5David Rein et al.
Artificial Analysis GPQA DiamondKnowledge63.1%33.2Artificial Analysis
τ³-Bench Tool-Agent-User EvaluationAgentic58.1%44.5Sierra Research
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard v4Agentic52.4%36.9Arcee AI
Software Engineering Benchmark VerifiedCoding47.7%35.8Carlos E. Jimenez et al.
Artificial Analysis Long Context ReasoningReasoning45.0%39.4Artificial Analysis
Scientific Code BenchmarkCoding36.1%45.7Benchmark authors
Artificial Analysis SciCodeCoding31.5%36.6Artificial Analysis
Artificial Analysis Coding IndexCoding22.4%34.7Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (provider run)Agentic20.6%36.2DeepSeek-AI
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (provider run)Agentic20.6%36.2DeepSeek-AI
SWE-bench ProCoding19.1%22.4Xiang Deng et al.
Artificial Analysis Omniscience AccuracyKnowledge11.2%27.7Artificial Analysis
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexKnowledge11.1%36.2Artificial Analysis
Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last ExamKnowledge9.7%35.1Artificial Analysis
Artificial Analysis Agentic IndexAgentic3.7%40.2Artificial Analysis
Critical Physics TasksReasoning0.3%39.0Artificial Analysis
GDPval-AA normalizedAgentic0.0%35.6Artificial Analysis

22 benchmarks count, from 23 of 23 results. A grey row does not count. Too few models took that benchmark.

Sources

BenchLM benchmark aggregationUsed with attribution; per-benchmark results credited to their original authorsOpenRouter, collected directlyNo licence stated

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