Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 32.2 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42.7% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct.
  • Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.030.8
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
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Results tracked3013

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%20.5%
LMArena Coding12231090
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11971073
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Math12131117
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Expert11731064
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12051033
LMArena Chinese11891070
LMArena Russian12271045
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11991056

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12111070

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Text12181080
LMArena Creative Writing11861046
LMArena Multi-Turn12271053

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.

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