# Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct

> Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-sonnet-vs-granite-3-0-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 14

## Summary

- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 31.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct.
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 31.6 |
| Rank | 231 | 270 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 29.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1112 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 35.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1092 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1143 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1087 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1060 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1088 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1122 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164)
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1063 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 31.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.