Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct IBM

31.8

Rank #256 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.4

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 42.2 to 30.6.
  • Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.838.4
Released—2026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked1313

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Coding1186—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard27.1%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), Qwen3.6 Flash: 28.4 (#90)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1146—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
DTBench—77.1%
LMCA—31%
Epoch Capabilities Index—143.26

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), Qwen3.6 Flash: 38.0 (#88)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—84.4%
LMArena Math1152—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.2 (#90)

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond—83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1142—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1099—
LMArena Chinese1145—
LMArena Russian1092—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1131—

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1162—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkGranite 3.1 8b InstructQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1150—
LMArena Creative Writing1129—
LMArena Multi-Turn1108—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 31.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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