Model comparison
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-14B
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.6 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.6 | 32.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 12 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255), Qwen1.5-14B: 32.5 (#259)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | 1138 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206), Qwen1.5-14B: 20.5 (#217)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | 1113 |
Math Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.9 (#214)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | 1125 |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223), Qwen1.5-14B: 29.3 (#230)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | 1094 |
| MMLU | — | 68.6% |
Multilingual Qwen1.5-14B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264), Qwen1.5-14B: 30.8 (#257)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | 1095 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1138 | 1147 |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | 1046 |
| LMArena French | — | 1115 |
| LMArena German | — | 1043 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1019 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1085 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259), Qwen1.5-14B: 57.1 (#266)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | 1102 |
Long Context Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#252)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | 1113 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269), Qwen1.5-14B: 33.7 (#270)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen1.5-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | 1128 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | 1110 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-14B?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-14B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.6 vs 32.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or Qwen1.5-14B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.5); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen1.5-14B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-14B has 17.