Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 14B Instruct
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads 37.1 to 29.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 52.2% for Qwen2.5 14B Instruct.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.1 | 38.2 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.35 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 14B Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: 37.1 (#187)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | 39.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | 52.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1113 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
| MMLU | — | 79.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280), Qwen2.5 14B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 14B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 14B Instruct?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Qwen2.5 14B Instruct does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Qwen2.5 14B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.1 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 14B Instruct has 3.