Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 30.4 to 9.2.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 31.8 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1186 |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1146 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.3 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1152 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1142 |
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1092 |
| LMArena French | 1194 | — |
| LMArena German | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1108 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1165 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | 1131 |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | 1162 |
Writing & Preference Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1108 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.