Granite 4.2 3B vs Lyria 3.5

This comparison does not currently contain a protocol-matched coding benchmark for both Granite 4.2 3B and Lyria 3.5, so Model Markets cannot name a coding leader from pricing, context size, or capability labels alone.

Only Granite 4.2 3B has a directly sourced input price: $0.030 per million tokens. Only Granite 4.2 3B has a directly sourced output price: $0.12 per million tokens.

Lyria 3.5 has the larger sourced context window. Granite 4.2 3B supports 131K and Lyria 3.5 supports 1,049K.

There is no overall benchmark winner: At least two independently verified, protocol-matched benchmarks are required for an overall winner.

Granite 4.2 3B is the only model in this pair currently marked as self-hostable. Granite 4.2 3B is open weight; Lyria 3.5 is not marked open weight.

Granite 4.2 3B is not documented with image input; Lyria 3.5 is documented with image input. This reflects supported input modalities, not vision quality.

Neither has a larger sourced maximum output. Granite 4.2 3B is — and Lyria 3.5 is 66K.

Granite 4.2 3B: reasoning and tool calling. Lyria 3.5: image input. Feature support does not establish relative quality.

Granite 4.2 3B has 1 sourced provider route; Lyria 3.5 has 2, so Lyria 3.5 has broader tracked availability.

There is no universal value winner. Compare the input and output prices above with the matched benchmark result for your workload: cheaper tokens can be offset by different quality, token usage, latency, or provider availability.