Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Phi-4 Mini

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.8

Rank #286 Confirmed

Phi-4 Mini Microsoft

30.9

Rank #283 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.0 to 25.3.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index30.830.9
Released—2024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.075
Output $ / M tokens—$0.30
Results tracked133

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
SciCode—10.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—
LMArena Coding1090—

Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—

Math Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Phi-4 Mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Math1117—

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.5%
LMArena Expert1064—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Phi-4 Mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Non-English1033—
LMArena Chinese1070—
LMArena Russian1045—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Phi-4 Mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Instruction Following1056—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Phi-4 Mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Longer Query1070—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Phi-4 Mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructPhi-4 Mini
LMArena Text1080—
LMArena Creative Writing1046—
LMArena Multi-Turn1053—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Phi-4 Mini?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (28.3 vs 28.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.

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