Granite 4.2 30B vs Mistral Medium 3.5

IBM · Mistral · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Granite 4.2 30B is cheaper ($0.125 vs $1.155/M); Mistral Medium 3.5 scores higher on intelligence (14.9 vs 14.8).
Granite 4.2 30BMistral Medium 3.5
Speed (tok/s)76.8 measured151.4 measured
Blended $/M$0.125 derived$1.155 derived
Intelligence index14.8 measured14.9 measured
TTFT (ms)85 measured232 measured
Context—262k list
Coding index3 measured47 measured
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Granite 4.2 30B card · Mistral Medium 3.5 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.