Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Ministral 3B

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 28.4 to 10.4.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Ministral 3B specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
ProviderIBMMistral AI
Noometry Index30.225.6
Released—2024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.04
Output $ / M tokens—$0.04
Results tracked136

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311), Ministral 3B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—
LMArena Coding1090—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—118.08

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Math1117—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond—25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1064—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273), Ministral 3B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1033—
LMArena Chinese1070—
LMArena Russian1045—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279), Ministral 3B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1056—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263), Ministral 3B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1071—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287), Ministral 3B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1080—
LMArena Creative Writing1046—
LMArena Multi-Turn1053—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Ministral 3B?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Ministral 3B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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