# Granite 4.2 30B vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 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

- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next leads overall 56.84 to 50.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 75.8 for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE Multilingual in Coding, with scores of 41.9% and 81%.
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Overall Score | null | 56.84 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 24 |
| 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
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 58.5 (Estimated · #27/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 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 |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 55.7% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 51.2% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 19.4% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 57.9 (Supported · #30/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | 81% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 62.5% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 75.8% | 91.9% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| SciCode | 38.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.1% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 58.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 83.3 (#7/48)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 64.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 72.3% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.6% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.7% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 84.6% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 75.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 55.5 (Supported · #53/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 91.7% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 35.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: 88 (#32/123)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | 81.3% | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 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 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Granite 4.2 30B and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 75.8 for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.

### 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 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Granite 4.2 8B](/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next)
- [Granite 4.2 30B vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-3b)
- [Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Granite 4.2 3B](/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next)

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