# Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs INTELLECT-1

> Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#247); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-3-1-2b-instruct-vs-intellect-1
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Hugging Face |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | — |
| Rank | 247 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.4 (#257)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 22.0 (#209)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 34.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 100.86 |
| HellaSwag | — | 71.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 65.8% |

## Math

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.1 (#206)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 38.6% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.8 (#224)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 54.5% |
| MMLU | — | 49.9% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.1 (#269)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1139 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 57.7 (#264)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | — |

## Long Context

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#244)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.1 (#274)
- INTELLECT-1: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | INTELLECT-1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than INTELLECT-1?

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#247); INTELLECT-1 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and INTELLECT-1 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and INTELLECT-1 has 7.