Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Llama 3-8B
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3-8B in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 33.0 to 8.8.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.4 | 25.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-04-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 34 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233), Llama 3-8B: 31.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | 1152 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 31.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 36.9% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 56.7% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120), Llama 3-8B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207), Llama 3-8B: 14.3 (#326)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1145 | 1133 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 43.9% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 57.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 116.45 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.6 |
| WinoGrande | — | 75.7% |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209), Llama 3-8B: 8.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | 1151 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.9% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 6.1% |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220), Llama 3-8B: 7.8 (#308)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | 1113 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 26.1% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 82.8% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 82.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 67.7% |
Multilingual Too close to call
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260), Llama 3-8B: 30.8 (#261)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | 1098 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | 1076 |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 967 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1004 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1173 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259), Llama 3-8B: 58.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | 1127 |
Long Context Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241), Llama 3-8B: 34.2 (#251)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | 1128 |
Writing & Preference Llama 3-8B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266), Llama 3-8B: 37.5 (#256)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 3-8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | 1150 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | 1152 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Llama 3-8B?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Llama 3-8B better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 31.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Llama 3-8B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3-8B has 34.