Model comparison
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Llama 3.1-405B
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.6 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 3.1-405B in 5 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads 30.6 to 17.3.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.6 | 30.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255), Llama 3.1-405B: 32.7 (#257)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | 1291 |
| WeirdML | — | 21.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —, Llama 3.1-405B: 20.9 (#131)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 7.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206), Llama 3.1-405B: 16.4 (#293)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | 1270 |
| SimpleBench | — | 23% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 45% |
| DTBench | — | 61.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 82.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 128.76 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.9 |
| HellaSwag | — | 89.2% |
| PIQA | — | 85.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 89.2% |
Math Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206), Llama 3.1-405B: 17.3 (#283)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | 1281 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 9.7% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 24.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 49.8% |
Knowledge Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223), Llama 3.1-405B: 30.4 (#221)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | 1243 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 50.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 52.2% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 95.3% |
| MMLU | — | 84.5% |
| TriviaQA | — | 82.7% |
Multilingual Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264), Llama 3.1-405B: 40.9 (#209)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | 1248 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1138 | 1242 |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | 1265 |
| LMArena French | — | 1278 |
| LMArena German | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1208 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1184 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1259 |
Instruction Following Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259), Llama 3.1-405B: 66.1 (#209)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | 1259 |
| IFEval | — | 81.1% |
Long Context Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239), Llama 3.1-405B: 38.4 (#192)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | 1266 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3.1-405B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269), Llama 3.1-405B: 39.1 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 3.1-405B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | 1284 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | 1262 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | 1297 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 870 |
| WildBench | — | 78.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Llama 3.1-405B?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.6 to 30.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or Llama 3.1-405B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Llama 3.1-405B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-405B has 42.