Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen2.5-Max
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 34.8 to 9.9.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 40.1 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2025-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 64.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1359 |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261), Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 51.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1360 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 67.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.54 |
| LiveBench | — | 62.3% |
Math Qwen2.5-Max leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1369 |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 21.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1337 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1382 |
| LMArena French | — | 1396 |
| LMArena German | — | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1299 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1377 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Max leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 75.3% |
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1335 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1358 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Max leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1339 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 72.9% |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1364 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 56.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen2.5-Max?
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen2.5-Max share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.