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Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Phi-3.5-mini

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.4

Unranked Sparse

Side by side

Granite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index28.836.4
Released2025-10-022024-08-16
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked85

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi-3.5-mini: 34.0 (#231)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
Chess Puzzles0%—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
BoolQ—78%

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
IFEval84.9%—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212), Phi-3.5-mini: —

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroPhi-3.5-mini
WildBench67%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Granite 4.0 Micro has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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