Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#286); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

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Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) specifications
Granite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.8—
Released—2024-09-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked136

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—
LMArena Coding1090—

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Hard Prompts1073—
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.14
HellaSwag—76.8%
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Math1117—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Expert1064—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
MMLU—68%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Non-English1033—
LMArena Chinese1070—
LMArena Russian1045—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Instruction Following1056—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Longer Query1070—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1080—
LMArena Creative Writing1046—
LMArena Multi-Turn1053—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#286); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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