# Granite 3.0 2b Instruct vs Phi-2

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

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

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 30.2 | — |
| Rank | 284 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

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

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 20.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1090 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1073 | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 107.62 |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

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

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1117 | — |

## Knowledge

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

| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1064 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multilingual

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

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

## Instruction Following

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

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

## Long Context

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

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

## Writing & Preference

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

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

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better than Phi-2?

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

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 2b Instruct and Phi-2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.