Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen1.5-72B
Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 30.7 to 11.2.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.3 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
Math Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 28.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1158 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1049 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1142 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen1.5-72B?
Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen1.5-72B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.