Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 4.2 8B vs o1

Granite 4.2 8B and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.5 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.2 8B IBM

40.5

Rank #148 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.2 8B scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 7 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 40.3.
  • Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper at $0.06 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Granite 4.2 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.2 8Bo1
ProviderIBMOpenAI
Noometry Index40.540.9
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K200K
Max output118K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.06$15
Output $ / M tokens$0.25$60
Results tracked1152

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 40.5 (#137), o1: 46.1 (#70)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Coding13801367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 26.6 (#131), o1: 27.9 (#111)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Hard Prompts13291371
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, o1: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
LMArena Math—1388
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 38.4 (#145), o1: 41.5 (#110)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Expert13841361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.2 8B: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 44.5 (#178), o1: 48.6 (#142)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Non-English13021358
LMArena Chinese13661394
LMArena Russian12851356
LMArena French—1344
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 68.7 (#184), o1: 74.8 (#86)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Instruction Following13011367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 40.3 (#159), o1: 50.3 (#9)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Longer Query13241378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Granite 4.2 8B: 49.6 (#189), o1: 55.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGranite 4.2 8Bo1
LMArena Text13201366
LMArena Creative Writing12361348
LMArena Multi-Turn13011369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.2 8B better than o1?

Granite 4.2 8B and o1 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.5 vs 40.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Granite 4.2 8B or o1?

Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper. It lists at $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is Granite 4.2 8B or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 40.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.2 8B and o1 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.2 8B has 11 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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