Granite 4.2 30B vs Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high)

IBM · SpaceXAI · catalog 2026-09-14

Granite 4.2 30B beats Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high): cheaper ($0.125 vs $0.159/M) and at least as smart (index 14.8 vs 14.6).
Granite 4.2 30BGrok 3 mini Reasoning (high)
Speed (tok/s)76.8 measured61.5 measured
Blended $/M$0.125 derived$0.159 derived
Intelligence index14.8 measured14.6 measured
TTFT (ms)85 measured68 measured
Context——
Coding indexnot measured for both
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Granite 4.2 30B card · Grok 3 mini Reasoning (high) card · 3D observatory

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