# BTL-3 vs Granite 4.2 8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for BTL-3 and Granite 4.2 8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/btl-3-vs-granite-4-2-8b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: BTL-3 and Granite 4.2 8B 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.
- BTL-3 has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Bad Theory Labs | IBM |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 38.51 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 3 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: 31.8 (Estimated · #138/152)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 88.5% | 52.4% | BTL-3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 20.6% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 58.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: 37.2 (Estimated · #125/151)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 88.1% | 73.2% | BTL-3 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 47.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 19.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 30.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 20.6% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 36.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: 51.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: 34.7 (Supported · #161/183)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 64.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: 84.4 (#46/123)

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.3% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- BTL-3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | BTL-3 | Granite 4.2 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between BTL-3 and Granite 4.2 8B?

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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- [BTL-3 vs BTL-4](/compare/btl-3-vs-btl-4)
- [Granite 4.2 8B vs BTL-4](/compare/btl-4-vs-granite-4-2-8b)
- [BTL-3 vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-3-vs-btl-4-compact)
- [Granite 4.2 8B vs BTL-4 Compact](/compare/btl-4-compact-vs-granite-4-2-8b)

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