Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.5), 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 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 30.4 to 18.1.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 31.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | 1293 |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1146 | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 129.01 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 82.3% |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | 1283 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | 1245 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 94.5% |
| MMLU | — | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | 1272 |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | 1264 |
| LMArena French | — | 1279 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1255 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | 1254 |
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | 1221 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | 1272 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 31.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.