Granite 4.2 30B vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Granite 4.2 30B vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct. A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

IBMGranite 4.2 30BOff the frontier
Intelligence
12.70
Total cost
$111
ByteDance SeedSeed-OSS-36B-InstructNot ranked · benchmark data missing
Intelligence
12.10
Total cost
-
Verdict

Comparison incomplete

A reliable intelligence-versus-cost verdict requires both models' intelligence scores and benchmark-run costs. Missing data is not a performance verdict.

MetricGranite 4.2 30BSeed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)12.712.1−4.7% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 4.7% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$110.83Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)51.51s67.17s+30.4% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 30.4% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.16 / $0.65$0.21 / $0.57
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