Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 58.2 to 29.8.
  • Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.242.3
Released—2026-02-23
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked1332

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding10901412
LMArena WebDev—1243
BigCodeBench Instruct20.5%—
ALE-Bench—221.8

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234), Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts10731404
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
DTBench—82.9%
LMCA—29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.98

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215), Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Math11171407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Expert10641408
GPQA Diamond—82.3%
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English10331385
LMArena Chinese10701446
LMArena Russian10451379
LMArena French—1412
LMArena German—1389
LMArena Japanese—1369
LMArena Korean—1344
LMArena Spanish—1399

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following10561374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query10711392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287), Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 2b InstructQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text10801397
LMArena Creative Writing10461343
LMArena Multi-Turn10531393

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 30.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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