Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen2-72B
Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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 Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2-72B leads 30.2 to 12.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-06-07 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1196 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.28 |
Math Qwen2-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 39.1% |
Knowledge Qwen2-72B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 40.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1171 |
| MMLU | — | 82.4% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1240 |
| LMArena French | — | 1170 |
| LMArena German | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1169 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1181 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1192 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1181 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1196 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen2-72B?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen2-72B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.