Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Granite 4.2 3b

Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Granite 4.2 3b IBM

39.4

Rank #169 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.2 3b in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 4.2 3b leads 36.3 to 26.2.
  • Granite 4.2 3b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index33.239.4
Released2024-05-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4211

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.2 3b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236), Granite 4.2 3b: 40.0 (#151)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Coding12611361
WeirdML24.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete55.1%—
HumanEval+75.6%—
MBPP+67.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
BALROG14.6%—

Reasoning Granite 4.2 3b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215), Granite 4.2 3b: 26.0 (#138)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Hard Prompts12571306
DTBench53.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.36—
ForecastBench53.9—
PIQA87.5%—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202516.3%—
Omni-MATH30.4%—
LMArena Math1269—
MATH Level 561.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—
GSM8K82.4%—

Knowledge Granite 4.2 3b leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260), Granite 4.2 3b: 36.3 (#171)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Expert12331315
GPQA Diamond47.3%—
MMLU-Pro67.8%—
GPQA (HELM)43.7%—
BoolQ85.8%—
MMLU77.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81), Granite 4.2 3b: —

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Vision1141—
Video-MME70.3%—
GeoBench76%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189), Granite 4.2 3b: 42.1 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Non-English12781268
LMArena Chinese12951269
LMArena Russian12881249
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1262—
LMArena Japanese1252—
LMArena Korean1221—
LMArena Spanish1243—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205), Granite 4.2 3b: 67.1 (#200)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Instruction Following12581273
IFEval83.1%—

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187), Granite 4.2 3b: 39.2 (#185)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Longer Query12841291

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196), Granite 4.2 3b: 47.2 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)Granite 4.2 3b
LMArena Text12871293
LMArena Creative Writing12851205
LMArena Multi-Turn12531290
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Granite 4.2 3b?

Granite 4.2 3b is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Granite 4.2 3b better for coding?

Granite 4.2 3b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.0 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Granite 4.2 3b share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.2 3b has 11.

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