Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Grok 3
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 1 category and Grok 3 in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Grok 3 leads 46.2 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 55.6% for Grok 3.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2025-04-09 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 40 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Grok 3: 41.9 (#115)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 53.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 37.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1432 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Grok 3: 30.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Grok 3: 13.7 (#333)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 36.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 61.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 5.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1434 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 138.33 |
Math Grok 3 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Grok 3: 38.0 (#145)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 55.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1391 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 88.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 3.8% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Grok 3: 46.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 75.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | 78.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | 65% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1421 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Grok 3: 52.3 (#87)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1410 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1448 |
| LMArena French | — | 1460 |
| LMArena German | — | 1431 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1387 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1373 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1416 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1417 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Grok 3: 75.0 (#73)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | 88.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1409 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Grok 3: 38.7 (#192)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 58.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1439 |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Grok 3: 55.8 (#141)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Grok 3 |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | 84.9% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1426 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1414 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.4% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1186 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1425 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Grok 3?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Grok 3 share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Grok 3 has 40.