Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Qwen3-4B
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen3-4B 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 . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-4B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3-4B leads 27.3 to 23.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 27.1% for Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and 35.7% for Qwen3-4B.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 31.5 |
| Released | — | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 13 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-4B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), Qwen3-4B: 27.3 (#94)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | 35.7% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), Qwen3-4B: 18.5 (#264)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1146 | — |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), Qwen3-4B: 28.5 (#228)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 38.5% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 52.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1152 | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#198)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 52.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), Qwen3-4B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Qwen3-4B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Qwen3-4B?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen3-4B 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.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen3-4B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.