Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads 35.5 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 Plus 1127 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 14 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 38.5 (#175)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1314 |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 25.9 (#141)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1299 |
Math Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 36.1 (#174)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1298 |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 35.5 (#183)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1289 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 41.9 (#201)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1265 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1314 |
| LMArena German | — | 1231 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1271 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 67.2 (#199)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1275 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 39.2 (#184)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1292 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 49.4 (#192)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1299 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1262 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1299 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen2.5 Plus 1127?
Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 has 14.