Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Palm 2
Granite 4.0 Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 25.6.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Palm 2: 29.0 (#311)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 994 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Palm 2: 19.1 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1005 |
Math Palm 2 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Palm 2: 30.8 (#231)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1049 |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Palm 2: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Palm 2: 20.9 (#295)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 916 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 887 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Palm 2: 51.0 (#296)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1010 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Palm 2: 30.8 (#285)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1010 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Palm 2: 25.6 (#304)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Palm 2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 991 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 994 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Palm 2?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Palm 2 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Palm 2 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Palm 2 has 10.