Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads 36.1 to 9.9.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 Micro and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
ProviderIBMAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index29.039.4
Released2025-10-02—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked816

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.5 (#157)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Coding—1347

Reasoning Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 26.4 (#132)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1322

Math Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.3 (#167)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
LMArena Math—1305

Knowledge Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
LMArena Expert—1308

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 42.6 (#191)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1275
LMArena Chinese—1304
LMArena French—1328
LMArena German—1282
LMArena Korean—1206
LMArena Russian—1268
LMArena Spanish—1336

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 68.6 (#187)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
IFEval84.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following—1299

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 39.9 (#166)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1312

Writing & Preference Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct: 50.2 (#185)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 3.1 32b Instruct
LMArena Text—1311
LMArena Creative Writing—1264
WildBench67%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1309

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct?

Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 3.1 32b Instruct has 16.

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