# Granite 4.2 3B vs Ornith-1.5-9B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 3B and Ornith-1.5-9B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-ornith-1-5-9b
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Granite 4.2 3B and Ornith-1.5-9B share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Ornith-1.5-9B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Ornith AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 9 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 44.4 (Estimated · #88/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 45.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 52.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 46.2% | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 46.2 (Estimated · #83/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 24.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 46.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 70.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 47.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 54.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 32.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: 37.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: 42.8 (Estimated · #120/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 54.8% | 86.4% | Ornith-1.5-9B |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Ornith-1.5-9B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Ornith-1.5-9B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Granite 4.2 3B and Ornith-1.5-9B?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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