# Claude Instant vs Granite 3.0 8b Instruct

> Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

## Summary

- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 31.1 |
| Rank | — | 266 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1113 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 35.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 18.8
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.0 (#227)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1092 |
| DTBench | 45.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 30.3 (#211)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1143 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.1 (#233)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1087 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.4 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1037 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1063 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1060 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1088 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#247)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1122 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.2 (#280)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1096 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1071 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1063 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Granite 3.0 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#266); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14.