# Claude Instant vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

> Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-granite-3-0-2b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.2 |
| Rank | — | 284 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 20.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1090 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1073 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1117 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1064 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1045 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1056 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1071 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1053 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#284); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.