Model comparison
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs o1-mini
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher in 1 category and o1-mini in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where o1-mini leads 43.6 to 29.1.
- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 34.0 |
| Released | — | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 39 |
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Category by category
Coding o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.4 (#257), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | 1362 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 32.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 36.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 48% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 78.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 22.0 (#209), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | 1333 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 18.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 14% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 72.3% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 135.82 |
| LiveBench | — | 57.8% |
Math o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.1 (#206), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | 1358 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 46.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 62% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 89.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.8 (#224), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | 1316 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 62.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 18.6% |
Multilingual o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.1 (#269), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | 1289 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1139 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | 1283 |
| LMArena French | — | 1293 |
| LMArena German | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1245 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1223 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1303 |
Instruction Following o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 57.7 (#264), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | 1304 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 65.4% |
Long Context o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#244), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference o1-mini leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.1 (#274), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | o1-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | 1317 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | 1244 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 64.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 40.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than o1-mini?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and o1-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 34.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or o1-mini better for coding?
o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 33.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and o1-mini share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.