# Granite 4.2 30B vs Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-qwen3-5-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 53.39 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45 (Estimated · #86/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 40.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 54.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 28.96% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.5 (Estimated · #87/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | 69.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| 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 |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 53.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 67.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 40.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #107/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 84.2% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | 85.3% | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 63.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 88.8 (#29/123)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 91.9% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: 21.1 (#11/12)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 81% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 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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