# Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Llama 2-34B

> Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-3-1-2b-instruct-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

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

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 32.6 | — |
| Rank | 243 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 32.9 (#255)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 21.0 (#206)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 44.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.81 |
| PIQA | — | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.7% |

## Math

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.6 (#206)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 42.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.3 (#223)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.7% |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 58.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.6% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.2 (#264)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1138 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 58.0 (#259)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | — |

## Long Context

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#239)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.3 (#269)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Llama 2-34B?

Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#243); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Llama 2-34B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.