IBM Granite 4.2 3B vs Hy3: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
IBM Granite 4.2 3B is developed by IBM, while Hy3 comes from Tencent. Hy3 was released in July 2026, and IBM Granite 4.2 3B followed a month later in August 2026. Hy3 is the larger model at roughly 295 billion parameters, against 3 billion for IBM Granite 4.2 3B.
We have 13 benchmark results for IBM Granite 4.2 3B and 31 benchmark results for Hy3, but they overlap on a single test: GPQA, where Hy3 scores 90.4% against 54.8%.
IBM Granite 4.2 3B is available through an API at $0.03 per million input tokens with a 131K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Hy3, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | IBM Granite 4.2 3B | Hy3 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | IBM | Tencent |
| Release Date | August 25, 2026 | July 6, 2026 |
| Parameters | 3B | 295B |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Context (input) | 131K | — |
| Context (output) | 131K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.03 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.12 | — |
| Average Score | 55.7% | 57.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 54.8% | 90.4% |
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Verdict
IBM Granite 4.2 3B leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: IBM Granite 4.2 3B — 0.6, Hy3 — 0.6.
IBM Granite 4.2 3B is newer: released 8/25/2026 vs 7/6/2026.
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