Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 2-13B
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 31.1 to 12.0.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2023-07-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1062 |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1051 |
| DTBench | — | 42.2% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 58.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 106.17 |
| HellaSwag | — | 80.7% |
| LAMBADA | — | 76.5% |
| PIQA | — | 80.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.8% |
Math Llama 2-13B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1065 |
| GSM8K | — | 36.9% |
Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1030 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 82.4% |
| MMLU | — | 55.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 57% |
| TriviaQA | — | 79.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| ScienceQA | — | 55.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1024 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1001 |
| LMArena French | — | 1044 |
| LMArena German | — | 1009 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 894 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 953 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1055 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1087 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1045 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1064 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 2-13B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1047 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1050 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 2-13B?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.