Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 32.5.
  • Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
ProviderIBMxAI
Noometry Index30.848.1
Released—2025-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1348

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Coding10901408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
WeirdML—45.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Hard Prompts10731409
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
Chess Puzzles—28%
Epoch Capabilities Index—146.44
ForecastBench—60.9

Math Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Math11171422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84%
Omni-MATH—60.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Expert10641415
GPQA Diamond—87%
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —, Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Vision—1210
GeoBench—45%

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Non-English10331403
LMArena Chinese10701427
LMArena Russian10451410
LMArena French—1418
LMArena German—1429
LMArena Japanese—1394
LMArena Korean—1377
LMArena Spanish—1420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following10561387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query10701409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructGrok 4
LMArena Text10801411
LMArena Creative Writing10461397
LMArena Multi-Turn10531416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
WildBench—79.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 28.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Grok 4 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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