# Atria Dawn Preview vs Granite 4.2 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 4.2 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/atria-dawn-preview-vs-granite-4-2-30b
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Atria Dawn Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite 4.2 30B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Atria Dawn Preview leads overall 63 to 50.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 78.3% and 29.2%.
- Atria Dawn Preview also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | IBM |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #31/153)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AutomationBench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 77.0% | 61.4% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| CyberGym | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 41.2% | 62.0% | Granite 4.2 30B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | 29.2% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| JobBench | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 51.6 (Estimated · #51/152)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | 29.2% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59.6% | 33.3% | Atria Dawn Preview |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 41.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 57% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 66.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Atria Dawn Preview or Granite 4.2 30B?

Atria Dawn Preview is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Atria Dawn Preview cover on BenchLM?

Atria Dawn Preview currently has 13 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Granite 4.2 30B cover on BenchLM?

Granite 4.2 30B currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-8b)
- [Atria Dawn Preview vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/atria-dawn-preview-vs-granite-4-2-3b)
- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-3b)

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