# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct

> Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-granite-3-1-8b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 33.9.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 31.8 |
| Rank | — | 256 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1186 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1146 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | — | 1152 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | — | 1142 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1092 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1131 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1162 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1108 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.