Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Olmo 7b Instruct

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

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Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 49.0.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
ProviderIBMAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Noometry Index29.030.3
Released2025-10-02—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked810

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Coding—1016

Reasoning Too close to call

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—993

Math Olmo 7b Instruct leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
LMArena Math—1018

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Olmo 7b Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Non-English—977
LMArena Chinese—1014
LMArena Russian—947

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
IFEval84.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following—978

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroOlmo 7b Instruct
LMArena Text—1032
LMArena Creative Writing—990
WildBench67%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1007

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

Olmo 7b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.

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