Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct IBM

32.4

Rank #258 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

29.3

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 22.1 to 14.8.

Side by side

Granite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.429.3
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1332

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Category by category

Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding11861101
LiveBench Coding—20.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—

Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11451100
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math11521151
LiveBench Math—17.6%

Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert11421067
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English10991058
LMArena Chinese11451061
LMArena Russian10921111
LMArena French—1135
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894
LMArena Spanish—1111

Instruction Following Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following11311087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%

Long Context Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query11621088

Writing & Preference Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text11501110
LMArena Creative Writing11291083
LMArena Multi-Turn11081068
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 27.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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