Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.6

Rank #270 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where QwQ-32B leads 50.6 to 31.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 54.4% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.639.8
Released—2024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1436

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct29.3%44.6%
LMArena Coding11121333
BigCodeBench Complete35.4%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts10921325
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Math11431359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Expert10871324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English10371305
LMArena Chinese10631378
LMArena Russian10601297
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following10881297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query11221308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Text10961329
LMArena Creative Writing10711288
LMArena Multi-Turn10631314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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