Model comparison

Granite 4.0 H Small vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct Microsoft

28.8

Rank #310 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 8 categories and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 68.9 to 52.2.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 H Small and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct specifications
Granite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index35.928.8
Released—2024-04-23
WeightsOpenOpen
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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.4 (#313)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Coding12471102
LiveBench Coding—20.3%

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.2 (#319)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12401100
LiveBench Reasoning—15.9%
LiveBench Data Analysis—30.3%
Adversarial NLI—58.1%
BIG-Bench Hard—79.1%
HellaSwag—77%
LiveBench—24%
WinoGrande—81.5%

Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 25.4 (#247)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Math12511151
Omni-MATH29.6%—
LiveBench Math—17.6%

Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#237)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Expert12441067
MMLU-Pro56.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—90.7%
MMLU—75.7%
OpenBookQA—88%
TriviaQA—58.1%

Multilingual Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.6 (#267)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Non-English12161058
LMArena Chinese12501061
LMArena Russian11981111
LMArena Spanish12581111
LMArena French—1134
LMArena German—1080
LMArena Japanese—966
LMArena Korean—894

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 52.2 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12211087
LiveBench Instruction Following—47.2%
IFEval89%—

Long Context Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#262)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12401088

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H SmallPhi 3 Small 8k Instruct
LMArena Text12411110
LMArena Creative Writing12101083
LMArena Multi-Turn12431068
WildBench73.9%—
LiveBench Language—12.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 27.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.

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