# Atria Dawn Preview vs Granite 4.2 3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 4.2 3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/atria-dawn-preview-vs-granite-4-2-3b
- Last updated: September 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 4.2 3B share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Atria Dawn Preview has the larger published context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | IBM |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 13 | 9 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #31/153)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AutomationBench | 53.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 77.0% | 52.4% | 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% | 45.8% | Granite 4.2 3B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 50.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: 51.6 (Estimated · #51/152)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 24.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: 37.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 54.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 74.3% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Atria Dawn Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Atria Dawn Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 66.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 4.2 3B?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [Atria Dawn Preview profile](/models/atria-dawn-preview)
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