Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#270); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | — |
| Released | — | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 14 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.14 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#270); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.