Model comparison
GPT-4.1 mini vs Granite 3.1 2b Instruct
GPT-4.1 mini and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 32.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 mini scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.1 mini leads 45.9 to 29.2.
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 33.5 | 32.6 |
| Released | 2025-04-14 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 47 | 12 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 30.4 (#286), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1367 | 1149 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 23.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 32.4% | — |
| SciCode | 40.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 37.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| CadEval | 16% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 33.0 (#52), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 50.5% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 10.9 (#335), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1349 | 1138 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 48.6% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 3.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 7% | — |
| DTBench | 68.8% | — |
| LMCA | 21.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.01 | — |
Math Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 23.1 (#264), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1343 | 1159 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 6.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 44.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 49.1% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 87.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
Knowledge GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 34.7 (#183), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | 1131 |
| GPQA Diamond | 65.8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 61.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4.1 mini: 35.2 (#77), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1181 | — |
Multilingual GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 45.9 (#161), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | 1068 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1329 | 1138 |
| LMArena Russian | 1324 | 1063 |
| LMArena French | 1357 | — |
| LMArena German | 1349 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1319 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 73.9 (#113), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1332 | 1116 |
| IFEval | 90.4% | — |
Long Context Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 31.8 (#270), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1155 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 mini leads
GPT-4.1 mini: 48.8 (#193), Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269)
| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 mini | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1341 | 1127 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1300 | 1116 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1354 | 1099 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1147 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4.1 mini better than Granite 3.1 2b Instruct?
GPT-4.1 mini and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.5 vs 32.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is GPT-4.1 mini or Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 mini and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 mini has 47 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12.