Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Granite 4.0 Micro
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Granite 4.0 Micro in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 29.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 36.3% for Claude 3 Haiku and 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 25.7 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | — |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.3 | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313), Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | — |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | — |
| LMArena French | 1194 | — |
| LMArena German | 1174 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1108 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1165 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1174 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1191 | — |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 28.8 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.