Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 56.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 61.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 30.9 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 49.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | 1302 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 61.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | 1281 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | 1299 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | 1259 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | 1277 |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | 1286 |
| LMArena French | — | 1259 |
| LMArena German | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1293 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | 1267 |
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |
Long Context Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | 1267 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.7 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Llama 4 Maverick share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.