IBM apache_2_0 Released Aug 25, 2026 Updated
IBM Granite 4.2 3B
ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.
Model summary
- Text #251 / 416
194 / 1,000
ToolsGuide Score· votes 172, tests 224
- Price per 1M tokens
In $0.03· Out $0.12
$0.03
Input · median text model $0.43
Summary
IBM Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's model, released Aug 25, 2026. It's ranked in 1 category and does best at text: #251 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 194 against a median of 235.
It costs $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.12 per million output tokens, below the median text model ($0.43).
It has published results on 13 tests.
Specifications
- Creator
IBM
- Licence
- apache_2_0
- Released
- Aug 25, 2026
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Input price
- $0.03 / 1M
- Output price
- $0.12 / 1M
- Tests reported
- 13
- Settings ranked
- granite-4.2-3b
Model comparison
Against the ten best text models.
Text score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Input price
USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better
Leaderboards
Where IBM Granite 4.2 3B sits among the top 20 in each category.
Text
#251 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
By task
Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.
Score against price
Text · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value
Text
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Test results
Every test IBM Granite 4.2 3B has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.
GPQA
#188 / 256Graduate-level science questions written to be hard to look up.
54.8%
Self-reported
MMLU-Pro
#102 / 142Broad knowledge and reasoning across 14 subjects, ten answer choices each.
67.8%
Self-reported
AIME 2025
#78 / 123Competition maths problems from the 2025 American Invitational Mathematics Exam.
78.3%
Self-reported
LiveCodeBench v6
#42 / 67LiveCodeBench is a holistic and contamination-free evaluation benchmark for large language models for code. It continuously collects new problems from programming contests (LeetCode, AtCoder, CodeForces) and evaluates four different scenarios: code generation, self-repair, code execution, and test output prediction. Problems are annotated with release dates to enable evaluation on unseen problems released after a model's training cutoff.
69.7%
Self-reported
IFBench
#21 / 44Instruction Following Benchmark evaluating model's ability to follow complex instructions
74.3%
Self-reported
SciCode
#30 / 30SciCode is a research coding benchmark curated by scientists that challenges language models to code solutions for scientific problems. It contains 338 subproblems decomposed from 80 challenging main problems across 16 natural science sub-fields including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. Problems require knowledge recall, reasoning, and code synthesis skills.
24.1%
Self-reported
HMMT25
#20 / 28Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament 2025 - A prestigious student-organized mathematics competition for high school students featuring two tournaments (November 2025 at MIT and February 2026 at Harvard) with individual tests, team rounds, and guts rounds
66.7%
Self-reported
BFCL-V4
#16 / 21Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard V4 (BFCL-V4) evaluates LLMs on their ability to accurately call functions and APIs, including simple, multiple, parallel, and nested function calls across diverse programming scenarios.
52.4%
Self-reported
Arena-Hard v2
#19 / 19Arena-Hard-Auto v2 is a challenging benchmark consisting of 500 carefully curated prompts sourced from Chatbot Arena and WildChat-1M, designed to evaluate large language models on real-world user queries. The benchmark covers diverse domains including open-ended software engineering problems, mathematics, creative writing, and technical problem-solving. It uses LLM-as-a-Judge for automatic evaluation, achieving 98.6% correlation with human preference rankings while providing 3x higher separation of model performances compared to MT-Bench. The benchmark emphasizes prompt specificity, complexity, and domain knowledge to better distinguish between model capabilities.
35.0%
Self-reported
TAU3-Bench
#7 / 8TAU3-Bench is a benchmark for evaluating general-purpose agent capabilities, testing models on multi-turn interactions with simulated user models, retrieval, and complex decision-making scenarios.
45.8%
Self-reported
ProfBench
#4 / 4ProfBench evaluates models on professional-domain reasoning and knowledge-work tasks, including search-augmented question answering across expert fields.
32.1%
Self-reported
RULER 128k
#4 / 4RULER 128k evaluates the official 13-task RULER v1 suite at a 131072-token context budget.
55.3%
Self-reported
RULER 64k
#4 / 4RULER 64k evaluates the official 13-task RULER v1 suite at a 65536-token context budget.
67.5%
Self-reported