Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 4.1 8b

Granite 4.1 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 8b IBM

37.4

Rank #205 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Granite 4.1 8b in 7 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 4.1 8b leads 36.4 to 14.8.
  • Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.537.4
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked4613

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Granite 4.1 8b: 30.1 (#297)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Coding12641312
LMArena WebDev—1192
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Granite 4.1 8b: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Granite 4.1 8b: 25.7 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Hard Prompts12451293
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Granite 4.1 8b leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.4 (#166)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Math12731312
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Granite 4.1 8b leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Granite 4.1 8b: 36.1 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Expert12231309
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Granite 4.1 8b: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Granite 4.1 8b: 41.7 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Non-English12581261
LMArena Chinese12481337
LMArena Russian12801240
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Granite 4.1 8b leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Granite 4.1 8b: 66.9 (#203)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Instruction Following12481269
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#193)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Longer Query12591275

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Granite 4.1 8b: 48.1 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.1 8b
LMArena Text12621290
LMArena Creative Writing12351251
LMArena Multi-Turn12751268
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 4.1 8b?

Granite 4.1 8b is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Granite 4.1 8b better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 4.1 8b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 8b has 13.

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