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granite-4.2-3b

AI model

Context window
131,072 tokens
Total parameters
3.66 B
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

granite-4.2-3b 1293.3 Granite 4.2 3B · 95% interval 1281.8–1304.8 · 3,249 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,274.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.15 – 1,322.01

207 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,361.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,339.87 – 1,383.35

830 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,206.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,178.88 – 1,234.68

632 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,321.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,304.53 – 1,338.45

1365 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,240.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,224.59 – 1,256.49

2565 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,311.55 rating

Confidence interval: 1,275.77 – 1,347.32

314 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,306.12 rating

Confidence interval: 1,291.52 – 1,320.71

2016 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,336.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,315.18 – 1,358.24

846 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,287.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,261.57 – 1,312.63

641 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,215.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,190.62 – 1,240.94

757 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,316.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,276.89 – 1,355.67

255 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,303.73 rating

Confidence interval: 1,274.65 – 1,332.80

499 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,271.03 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.74 – 1,316.32

225 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,350.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,332.20 – 1,368.81

1192 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,217.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.69 – 1,242.19

821 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,274.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,254.56 – 1,293.88

1093 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,291.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,273.05 – 1,309.46

1357 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,292.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,263.60 – 1,320.94

528 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,267.50 rating

Confidence interval: 1,252.18 – 1,282.83

1884 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,293.31 rating

Confidence interval: 1,281.82 – 1,304.81

3249 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,245.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,211.46 – 1,280.18

360 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Granite 4.2 3B
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,268.84 rating

Confidence interval: 1,219.78 – 1,317.90

205 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,361.99 rating

Confidence interval: 1,340.28 – 1,383.70

831 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,205.14 rating

Confidence interval: 1,177.18 – 1,233.11

633 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,321.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,304.24 – 1,338.14

1366 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,239.95 rating

Confidence interval: 1,224.01 – 1,255.90

2567 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,314.15 rating

Confidence interval: 1,278.44 – 1,349.86

314 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,306.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,291.64 – 1,320.83

2014 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,336.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,315.41 – 1,358.41

848 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,285.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,260.03 – 1,311.13

641 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,216.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,191.46 – 1,241.57

759 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,316.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,277.06 – 1,355.46

257 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,303.59 rating

Confidence interval: 1,274.49 – 1,332.68

499 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,271.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.56 – 1,317.18

224 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,350.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,332.09 – 1,368.73

1190 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,217.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.01 – 1,241.43

824 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,272.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,253.15 – 1,292.59

1091 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,290.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,272.58 – 1,309.01

1355 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,291.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,262.64 – 1,320.12

528 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,267.11 rating

Confidence interval: 1,251.78 – 1,282.43

1885 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,292.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,281.44 – 1,304.43

3251 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

granite-4.2-3b

1,247.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,213.78 – 1,281.83

366 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
granite-4.2-3b
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

granite-4.2-3b

3.66 B total parameters · granite · BF16

Published checkpoint tensor payload: 6.8 GiB. This includes stored copies and buffers; it is separate from the runtime estimates below.

Estimated accelerator memory3.2 GiB
Weights
1.9 GiB
KV cache
0.3 GiB
Runtime allowance
1.0 GiB

One user, full model in accelerator memory.

GPUs with memory headroom

Local AI systems with memory headroom

Shared-memory systems use a planning budget of 75% of installed memory, leaving 25% for the OS and other allocations. This is an assumption, not a measured GPU allocation. Firmware and driver limits may be lower and may require configuration. Memory matches do not verify a runtime, quantized model artifact or inference speed.

Includes FP16 KV cache, prompt plus generated tokens, quantization metadata and a runtime allowance. GPU matches reserve 10% of VRAM. Memory fit is not a speed or software-compatibility guarantee; quantized weights and runtime support must be available.

Capabilities

Context window
131,072 tokens
Open weights
Yes
Model license
apache-2.0
Total parameters
3.66 B
Checkpoint tensor payload
6.82 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
granite