Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.6

Rank #270 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where o1 leads 55.6 to 31.1.
  • Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 8b Instructo1
ProviderIBMOpenAI
Noometry Index31.640.9
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1452

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), o1: 46.1 (#70)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Coding11121367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
BigCodeBench Instruct29.3%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
BigCodeBench Complete35.4%—
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), o1: 27.9 (#111)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Hard Prompts10921371
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.91
LiveBench—75.7%

Math o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), o1: 36.1 (#175)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Math11431388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), o1: 41.5 (#110)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Expert10871361
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
Confabulations—11.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), o1: 48.6 (#142)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Non-English10371358
LMArena Chinese10631394
LMArena Russian10601356
LMArena French—1344
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396
LMArena Spanish—1345

Instruction Following o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), o1: 74.8 (#86)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Instruction Following10881367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), o1: 50.3 (#9)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Longer Query11221378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), o1: 55.6 (#144)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b Instructo1
LMArena Text10961366
LMArena Creative Writing10711348
LMArena Multi-Turn10631369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.1 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and o1 share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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