# dots3-note Preview vs Granite 4.2 3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for dots3-note Preview and Granite 4.2 3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/dots3-note-preview-vs-granite-4-2-3b
- 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: dots3-note 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.
- dots3-note Preview has the larger published context window at 512K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Dots Studio | IBM |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 512K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 64.41 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 31 | 9 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 59.3 (Estimated · #25/152)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 52.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 83.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 78.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 45.8% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.2 (Estimated · #34/151)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Codeforces | 3056.0 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 91.5% | 69.7% | dots3-note Preview |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 75.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 49.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 24.1% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 66.1 (Unranked · 10 rankable rows)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SimpleVQA | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 79.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 50.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 79.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 68.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: 37.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 81.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 57.9 (Estimated · #42/183)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 54.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: 86.3 (#38/123)
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 80.4% | 74.3% | dots3-note Preview |
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- dots3-note Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | dots3-note Preview | Granite 4.2 3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMOAnswerBench | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 dots3-note 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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