# Granite 4.2 3B vs Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B (slim)

> Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) to Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B's 52.1 (D) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Granite 4.2 3B scores 59.8 (C) on agent readiness against Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B's 52.1 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Granite 4.2 3B: C 59.8, rank #92 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.min.md
- Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B: D 52.1, rank #141 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen-agentworld-35b-a3b.min.md
- Granite 4.2 3B, good for Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off Ahead on Reach, 95 against 55; Agent interface, 85 against 50; Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 41.
- Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, good for Agent builders who want to train or test an agent against simulated tools, terminals, browsers and phones on a 128 GB machine

| Category | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 95 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 55 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 50 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 92 | 41 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen team) |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-06-25 |
| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Granite 4.2 3B +51: Granite 4.2 3B 92 (The card covers everything but a knowledge cut-off (17).); Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 41 (Model card 11, the card gives intended use (simulating agent environments), architecture, parameters and context length.)
- Reach, Granite 4.2 3B +40: Granite 4.2 3B 95 (Memory earns the full 30, since IBM's 4-bit MLX build is 2.07 GB and Ollama's Q4_K_M build 2.2 GB, about 2.5 to 2.6 GB with the fifth added.); Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 55 (Memory 10, Alibaba's only build is the BF16 safetensors, 69.32 GB, and 69.32 GB × 1.2 = 83.2 GB, above 64 GB and inside the reference machine's GPU share.)
- Agent interface, Granite 4.2 3B +35: Granite 4.2 3B 85 (The template ships in the repository (20).); Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B 50 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, the same as the template in tokenizer_config.json.)