Claude Haiku 5.5 vs IBM Granite 4.2 8B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic, while IBM Granite 4.2 8B comes from IBM. IBM Granite 4.2 8B was released in August 2026, and Claude Haiku 5.5 followed 2 months later in October 2026. IBM Granite 4.2 8B has a published size of about 8 billion parameters; Anthropic has not disclosed the parameter count of Claude Haiku 5.5.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Claude Haiku 5.5 leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on SWE-bench Multilingual, where Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 83.7% against 30.8%; SWE-Bench Pro, where Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 64.8% against 19.1%. Averaged across everything we track, Claude Haiku 5.5 sits at 57.7% and IBM Granite 4.2 8B at 56.7%.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is available through an API at $0.10 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for IBM Granite 4.2 8B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Claude Haiku 5.5 | IBM Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic | IBM |
| Release Date | October 7, 2026 | August 25, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 8B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 128K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.10 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.50 | — |
| Average Score | 57.7% | 56.7% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 83.7% | 30.8% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 64.8% | 19.1% |
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Verdict
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Claude Haiku 5.5 — 0.6, IBM Granite 4.2 8B — 0.6.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is newer: released 10/7/2026 vs 8/25/2026.
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