Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.4

Rank #17 Confirmed

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 8 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 75.3 to 29.8.
  • Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index58.430.2
Released2026-04-14—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6613

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.9 (#10), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Coding15191090
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1557—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
WeirdML76.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—20.5%
MirrorCode31.1%—
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#8), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.7 (#24), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15071073
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.5 (#20), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Math14991117
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%—
ProofBench54%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#20), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Expert15211064
GPQA Diamond90.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.5 (#29), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Vision1317—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.5 (#9), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Non-English14811033
LMArena Chinese15301070
LMArena Russian14941045
LMArena French1505—
LMArena German1494—
LMArena Japanese1472—
LMArena Korean1466—
LMArena Spanish1497—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.6 (#9), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14981056

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.1 (#24), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15051071

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.3 (#8), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Text14911080
LMArena Creative Writing14861046
LMArena Multi-Turn15061053
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.

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