Granite 4.2 8B vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct

IBM · Alibaba · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Granite 4.2 8B is cheaper ($0.044 vs $2.1/M); Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct scores higher on intelligence (11.9 vs 11.8).

	Granite 4.2 8B	Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct
Speed (tok/s)	84 measured	50.3 measured
Blended $/M	$0.044 derived	$2.1 derived
Intelligence index	11.8 measured	11.9 measured
TTFT (ms)	64 measured	303 measured
Context	131k list	—
Coding index	not measured for both
Agentic index	not measured for both

Granite 4.2 8B card · Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B Instruct card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.