# Granite 4.2 30B vs Qwen3.6-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.6-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-qwen3-6-27b
- 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. Qwen3.6-27B 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 47.69.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 74.1 for Qwen3.6-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE Multilingual in Coding, with scores of 41.9% and 71.3%.
- Qwen3.6-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 47.69 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 38 |
| 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
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 30.9 (Supported · #140/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | 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 | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1487 | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 54.84% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 41.7 (Supported · #107/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | 71.3% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 53.5% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | 77.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.9 (#35/48)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MStar | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 74.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #101/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 24% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.4 (#51/123)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 89.2% | 93.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.1% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite 4.2 30B or Qwen3.6-27B?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.6-27B?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 74.1 for Qwen3.6-27B.

### 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 Qwen3.6-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-27B currently has 38 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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