Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 32.8 to 15.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 57.5% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 30.6 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.32 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 31.0 (#290)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 46.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1268 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 57.5% |
| SciCode | — | 26% |
| WeirdML | — | 14.4% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 25.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 31.9% |
| BALROG | — | 23% |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 14.1 (#327)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1257 |
| SimpleBench | — | 19.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.8% |
| DTBench | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.5% |
| LMCA | — | 17.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 127.33 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 50.2% |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 15.3 (#298)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1267 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 5.1% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 41.6% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 30.6 (#226)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1225 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.1% |
| MMLU | — | 86.3% |
Multilingual Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 39.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1236 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1217 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1252 |
| LMArena French | — | 1281 |
| LMArena German | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1143 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1270 |
Instruction Following Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 71.1 (#157)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1242 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 82.7% |
Long Context Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 26.4 (#295)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1256 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
Writing & Preference Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: 47.6 (#207)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1274 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1250 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1280 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 39.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct better for coding?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.0 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 43.