# Granite 4.2 30B vs Sakana Fugu

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-sakana-fugu
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu 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

- Sakana Fugu leads overall 69 to 50.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 69.5 for Sakana Fugu.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 66.4% and 95.5%.
- Sakana Fugu is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Sakana Fugu also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | 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 | 80.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 59% | Sakana Fugu |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 75.8% | 92.9% | Sakana Fugu |
| SciCode | 38.8% | 60.1% | Sakana Fugu |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 68.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 85.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: 69.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | 95.5% | Sakana Fugu |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Sakana Fugu public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Sakana Fugu | 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 Sakana Fugu?

Sakana Fugu is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Granite 4.2 30B and Sakana Fugu?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 54.7 for Granite 4.2 30B and 69.5 for Sakana Fugu.

### 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 Sakana Fugu cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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