Model comparison
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Qwen3.5-9B
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.6 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 30.3.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 32.6 | 33.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.3 (#213)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 27.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: —, Qwen3.5-9B: 14.4 (#143)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 9.2% |
Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206), Qwen3.5-9B: 22.5 (#178)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | — |
| DTBench | — | 71.2% |
| LMCA | — | 24.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.45 |
Math Qwen3.5-9B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206), Qwen3.5-9B: 33.5 (#174)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 48.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 61.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1159 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 79% |
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269), Qwen3.5-9B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen3.5-9B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Qwen3.5-9B?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.6 vs 33.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?
Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen3.5-9B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.