Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Granite 4.0 Micro
Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 18.8, Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | — | 67% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.