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Granite 4.2 30B vs BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Updated October 1, 2026. We do not rank this pair: at least one has no public score. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.

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Decision reading

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. Use the documented cost, context, and runtime rows instead. 0 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Model A
IBM logo
Granite 4.2 30B

IBM

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Evidence status unavailable

90% interval unavailable

Model B
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Koreeda and Manning

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Evidence status unavailable

90% interval unavailable

Shared results
0
Granite 4.2 30B only
14
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) only
0
Like-for-like categories
0 / 8
How the comparison works

Which one for your work

Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.

No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.

Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.

Show secondary and unsupported calls

  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    Granite 4.2 30B and BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) are not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    Granite 4.2 30B and BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) are not ranked on the public lane for agentic, so no winner is named for agentic.

    Confidence: limited

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete context comparison is not sourced.

    Confidence: limited

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. Granite 4.2 30B does not fit this workload in one request. Granite 4.2 30B has no comparable published API token rate. BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) has no comparable published API token rate.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

Which one for a specific job

Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.

The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.

—Granite 4.2 30B—BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not comparable · BenchAlign v5.8

The coding row is not comparable on the public lane: at least one model is not measured or not ranked there.

Coding scores combine specific tasks and setups. Match the editor, harness, and effort to your workflow.

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Same basis rules as the category table below

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shape of the matched evidence

Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.

A shared-evidence shape is not available.

BenchLM does not draw a radar or infer missing axes when the matched evidence is too sparse.

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.

Agentic

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 3 vs 0 public rows
Reading
Not comparable

Coding

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 0 public rows
Reading
Not comparable

Reasoning

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
55.9
Unranked · 2 rankable rows
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multimodal

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading
Not comparable

Knowledge

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
BenchAlign v5.8 lane · 2 vs 0 public rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading
Not comparable

Instruction following

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
Provisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading
Not comparable

Math

Not comparable
Granite 4.2 30B
Not ranked
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
Not ranked
Basis
Provisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows
Reading
Not comparable

Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.

Bars run 0–100Methodology

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Granite 4.2 30B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Fits in one request
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable

Granite 4.2 30B has no comparable published API token rate. BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Granite 4.2 30B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Fits in one request
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable

Granite 4.2 30B has no comparable published API token rate. BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Granite 4.2 30B
Self-hosted; infrastructure cost varies
Does not fit in one request
Cached-input rate unavailable
BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)
API rate not published
Fit state unavailable
Cached-input rate unavailable

Granite 4.2 30B does not fit this workload in one request. Granite 4.2 30B has no comparable published API token rate. BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) has no comparable published API token rate.

Cached input falls back to the list input rate only where a cached rate is unpublished

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Granite 4.2 30B

128K

IBM Granite 4.2 30B model card

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

API model ID

Granite 4.2 30B

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b

IBM Granite 4.2 30B model card

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Granite 4.2 30B

No comparable hosted API rate

IBM Granite 4.2 30B model card

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

No comparable hosted API rate

Provider pricing

Documented inputs

Granite 4.2 30B

Not sourced

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Granite 4.2 30B

Not sourced

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

Provider availability

Granite 4.2 30B

Not sourced

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Granite 4.2 30B

Reasoning

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Unspecified

Weight access

Granite 4.2 30B

Open Weight

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Research system

License

Granite 4.2 30B

Open Weight

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Proprietary

Release date

Granite 4.2 30B

2026-08-25

BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)

Not sourced

If you already use one of these models

Deployment change
The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal
The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict.
Workload cost
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff
A complete documented context comparison is not available.
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Questions

Which is better, Granite 4.2 30B or BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)?

The public evidence has no benchmark result shared by both models, so it does not support a quality verdict. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.

Which is better for coding, Granite 4.2 30B or BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)?

Granite 4.2 30B and BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) are not ranked on the public lane for coding, so no winner is named for coding.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Granite 4.2 30B or BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)?

Granite 4.2 30B and BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI) are not ranked on the public lane for agentic tasks, so no winner is named for agentic tasks.

Which costs less, Granite 4.2 30B or BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Granite 4.2 30B or BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)?

A complete documented context-window comparison is not available.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence14 rows

Agentic

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    Granite 4.2 30B29.2%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • τ³-bench results

    Granite 4.2 30B62.0%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • BFCL v4

    Granite 4.2 30B61.4%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • SWE Multilingual

    Granite 4.2 30B41.9%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • SWE-bench Pro

    Granite 4.2 30B33.3%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • SWE-bench Verified

    Granite 4.2 30B57%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    Granite 4.2 30B29.2%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • LiveCodeBench v6

    Granite 4.2 30B75.8%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • SciCode

    Granite 4.2 30B38.8%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • GPQA

    Granite 4.2 30B66.4%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • MMLU-Pro

    Granite 4.2 30B77.6%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

Instruction following

  • IFBench

    Granite 4.2 30B77.2%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Granite 4.2 30B89.2%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

  • HMMT Feb 2025

    Granite 4.2 30B89.2%
    Source
    BERT base / Fine-tuned on case law and contract corpora Chalkidis et al. (2020) (ContractNLI)—

    Not directly comparable

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Last updated October 1, 2026