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Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen1.5-32B

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 30.5 to 11.2.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.830.0
Released2025-10-022024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked821

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
LMArena Coding—1155
BigCodeBench Complete—42%

Reasoning Qwen1.5-32B leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
Chess Puzzles0%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1131

Math Qwen1.5-32B leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
LMArena Math—1155

Knowledge Qwen1.5-32B leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond28.3%30.7%
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
LMArena Expert—1126
MMLU—74.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English—1106
LMArena Chinese—1176
LMArena French—1100
LMArena German—1058
LMArena Japanese—1027
LMArena Korean—1007
LMArena Russian—1073
LMArena Spanish—1089

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
IFEval84.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following—1116

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query—1146

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroQwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text—1137
LMArena Creative Writing—1083
WildBench67%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1140

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen1.5-32B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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