Granite 4.2 3B vs Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct

Granite 4.2 3B 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 3BOn the open-weights frontier
Intelligence
9.10
Total cost
$14.9
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 3BSeed-OSS-36B-InstructDifference
Intelligence (higher is better)9.112.1+33.0% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 33.0% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)$14.91Not reported— not comparable
End-to-end time (lower is better)49.42s67.17s+35.9% Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is 35.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)$0.03 / $0.12$0.21 / $0.57
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