Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 2-70B

Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 5 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 54.9.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-70B specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index29.024.4
Released2025-10-022023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked835

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding—1079

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1073
DTBench—41.6%
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
Epoch Capabilities Index—113.79
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%0%
Omni-MATH20.9%—
LMArena Math—1091
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond28.3%26.3%
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
LMArena Expert—1039
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English—1045
LMArena Chinese—995
LMArena French—1090
LMArena German—1041
LMArena Japanese—927
LMArena Korean—964
LMArena Russian—1083
LMArena Spanish—1143

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
IFEval84.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following—1071

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query—1062

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text—1115
LMArena Creative Writing—1075
WildBench67%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1088

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 2-70B?

Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-70B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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