Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 69.9 to 47.7.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 27.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#323)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 15.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1093 |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 14.1 (#328)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 26.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1072 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 34.7% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 52.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 71.7% |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.7% |
| LiveBench | — | 22.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 70.8% |
Math Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 15.7% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1111 |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 28.5 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1045 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68.8% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 64% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 26.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1021 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1021 |
| LMArena French | — | 1076 |
| LMArena German | — | 1044 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 935 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 905 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1022 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1085 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 47.7 (#303)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 39.1% |
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1053 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 31.7 (#276)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1044 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct: 27.6 (#300)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1037 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1018 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 9.2% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct?
Granite 4.0 Micro is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 27.9 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 4k Instruct has 35.