# Granite 4.2 30B vs LFM2.5-230M

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and LFM2.5-230M across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-lfm2-5-230m
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Granite 4.2 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. LFM2.5-230M only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Granite 4.2 30B leads overall 50 to 34.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro in Knowledge, with scores of 77.6% and 20.3%.
- Granite 4.2 30B also has the larger context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | LiquidAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 32K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 6 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: 42.2 (Estimated · #106/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 61.4% | 21.0% | Granite 4.2 30B |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 38.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: 33.6 (Estimated · #168/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 25.4% | Granite 4.2 30B |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | 20.3% | Granite 4.2 30B |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 25.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: 9.7 (#122/123)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | 38.4% | Granite 4.2 30B |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 71.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | LFM2.5-230M | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite 4.2 30B or LFM2.5-230M?

Granite 4.2 30B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does LFM2.5-230M cover on BenchLM?

LFM2.5-230M currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-8b)
- [LFM2.5-230M vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-lfm2-5-230m)
- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-3b)
- [LFM2.5-230M vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-lfm2-5-230m)

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