Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where QwQ-32B leads 37.2 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1325 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 59.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
Knowledge QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 65.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1324 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than QwQ-32B?
QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and QwQ-32B share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.