# Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct

> Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-granite-3-1-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 30.4 to 13.9.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 31.8 |
| Rank | 300 | 256 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1186 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1146 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1152 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1142 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1092 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1131 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1162 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1108 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.