Model comparison

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Llama 3.2 11B

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); Llama 3.2 11B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct IBM

31.8

Rank #256 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 11B

Summary

The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Llama 3.2 11B leads 27.0 to 23.9.

Side by side

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Llama 3.2 11B specifications
	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
Provider	IBM	Meta
Noometry Index	31.8	31.6
Released	—	2024-09-24
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	—	—
Max output	—	—
Input $ / M tokens	—	—
Output $ / M tokens	—	—
Results tracked	13	3

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Coding	1186	—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 11B leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), Llama 3.2 11B: 27.0

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	27.1%	—
BALROG	—	16.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1146	—

Math Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Math	1152	—

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Expert	1142	—
MMLU	—	56.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —, Llama 3.2 11B: 23.8

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Vision	—	966

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Non-English	1099	—
LMArena Chinese	1145	—
LMArena Russian	1092	—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Instruction Following	1131	—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Longer Query	1162	—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), Llama 3.2 11B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Granite 3.1 8b Instruct	Llama 3.2 11B
LMArena Text	1150	—
LMArena Creative Writing	1129	—
LMArena Multi-Turn	1108	—

Frequently asked questions

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