Model comparison
Granite 4.1 8b vs o3-mini
Granite 4.1 8b and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 8b scores higher in 3 categories and o3-mini in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where o3-mini leads 40.8 to 30.1.
- Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 37.4 | 36.7 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding o3-mini leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 30.1 (#297), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1312 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1192 | — |
| SciCode | — | 39.8% |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.1 8b: —, o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
Reasoning Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 25.7 (#143), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1293 | 1366 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 34.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 7% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 140.34 |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 36.4 (#166), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 76.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge o3-mini leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 36.1 (#174), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1309 | 1364 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
Multilingual o3-mini leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 41.7 (#204), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1261 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1337 | 1379 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1304 |
| LMArena French | — | 1334 |
| LMArena German | — | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1314 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1321 |
Instruction Following o3-mini leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 66.9 (#203), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1269 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context Granite 4.1 8b leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#193), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1275 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
Writing & Preference o3-mini leads
Granite 4.1 8b: 48.1 (#204), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 8b | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1290 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1251 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1268 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.1 8b better than o3-mini?
Granite 4.1 8b and o3-mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.4 vs 36.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 4.1 8b or o3-mini better for coding?
o3-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 8b and o3-mini share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 8b has 13 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.