# Granite 4.2 30B vs Ornith-1.5-9B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and Ornith-1.5-9B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-ornith-1-5-9b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Granite 4.2 30B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.5-9B 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 GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 66.4% and 86.4%.
- Ornith-1.5-9B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Ornith AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 16 |
| 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
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #88/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | 46.2% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| τ³-bench results | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 30.5% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 54.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 41.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 59.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 56.4% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 66.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 46.2 (Estimated · #83/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | 54.4% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 47.5% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | 70.6% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | 46.2% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 38.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 32.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #120/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 86.4% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 20.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 20.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Ornith-1.5-9B | 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 Ornith-1.5-9B?

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 Ornith-1.5-9B cover on BenchLM?

Ornith-1.5-9B currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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