Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Phi-2

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Phi-2 Microsoft

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Unranked

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Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi-2 specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index29.0—
Released2025-10-022023-12-12
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked811

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi-2: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
HumanEval+—45.1%
MBPP+—54.2%

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Phi-2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
Chess Puzzles0%—
Adversarial NLI—42.5%
BIG-Bench Hard—59.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—107.94
HellaSwag—53.6%
WinoGrande—54.7%

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Phi-2: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Phi-2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—75.9%
MMLU—58.4%
OpenBookQA—73.6%
TriviaQA—45.2%

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Phi-2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
IFEval84.9%—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Phi-2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-2
WildBench67%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Phi-2?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#318); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.

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