Model comparison
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 31.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 47.6 to 27.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 59.9% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct.
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 34.8 | 31.1 |
| Released | 2024-12-06 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | 29.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1351 | 1113 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | 35.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1092 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| DTBench | 63.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1351 | 1143 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1340 | 1087 |
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1060 |
| LMArena French | 1390 | — |
| LMArena German | 1354 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1088 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1345 | 1122 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280)
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1063 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 31.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (28.2 vs 29.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.