Model comparison
GPT-4 Turbo vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 33.0 to 9.0.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 32.4 |
| Released | 2023-11-06 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1268 | 1186 |
| WeirdML | 18% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: —, Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | 36.7% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1145 |
| SimpleBench | 25.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 9.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.25 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.4 | — |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1272 | 1152 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.7% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1142 |
| GPQA Diamond | 46.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 28.4% | — |
| MMLU | 81.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1090 | — |
Multilingual GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1245 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1242 | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | 1259 | 1092 |
| LMArena French | 1276 | — |
| LMArena German | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1194 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1260 | — |
Instruction Following GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1249 | 1131 |
Long Context GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1254 | 1162 |
Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads
GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266)
| Benchmark | GPT-4 Turbo | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1272 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1269 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1267 | 1108 |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-4 Turbo or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.8 vs 34.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.