# Granite 4.2 3B vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 3B and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite 4.2 3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.7 Max leads overall 67.08 to 43.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 37.7 for Granite 4.2 3B and 75.1 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 54.8% and 92.4%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 67.08 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 9 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 41.2 (Supported · #110/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 45.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 52.4% | 75.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 64.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 76.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 64.27% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 49.3 (Supported · #64/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 24.1% | 53.5% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: 37.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 75.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 61.7 (Supported · #28/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 54.8% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 91.1 (#16/123)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 74.3% | 79.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/12)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 87% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Granite 4.2 3B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 82.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 78.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 66.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite 4.2 3B or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Granite 4.2 3B and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 37.7 for Granite 4.2 3B and 75.1 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### How many benchmarks does Granite 4.2 3B cover on BenchLM?

Granite 4.2 3B currently has 9 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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