# Flint vs Granite 4.2 30B

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-granite-4-2-30b
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Flint 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

- Flint leads overall 67 to 53.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 54.9% and 29.2%.
- Flint also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Flint | Granite 4.2 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Recursive | IBM |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.9% | 29.2% | Flint |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 62.0% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 61.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.2% | 57% | Flint |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 80.3% | 75.8% | Flint |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 41.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 33.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 29.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 38.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 58.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

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

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/152)
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Granite 4.2 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 89.2% | 77.2% | Flint |
| IFEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | 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, Flint or Granite 4.2 30B?

Flint is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Flint cover on BenchLM?

Flint currently has 5 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Flint vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-granite-4-2-8b)
- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-8b)
- [Flint vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-granite-4-2-3b)
- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-3b)

## Explore More

- [Flint profile](/models/flint-40b-a2-5b)
- [Granite 4.2 30B profile](/models/granite-4-2-30b)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)