Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen1.5-7B
Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 28.2 to 9.9.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.8 |
| 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 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1107 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1066 |
Math Qwen1.5-7B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1080 |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1055 |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1006 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1058 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1090 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1035 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1061 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen1.5-7B?
Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen1.5-7B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.