Model comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Granite 4.0 Micro
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 62.8.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-10-03 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 21 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1218 | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1209 | — |
| DTBench | 50% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.6% | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1207 | — |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1185 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1044 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1215 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1231 | — |
| LMArena French | 1234 | — |
| LMArena German | 1206 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1140 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1212 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1219 | — |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1226 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1218 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1185 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.