Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Granite 4.0 Micro
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.5 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 77.7% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | 20.9% |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1306 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | 30.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | — |
| LMArena French | 1304 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85.5% | 84.9% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 79.2% | 67% |
| LMArena Text | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.