# Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Llama 2-34B

> Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-3-1-8b-instruct-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | — |
| Rank | 256 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1146 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 44.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 104.81 |
| PIQA | — | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.7% |

## Math

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 42.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.7% |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 58.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.6% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | — |

## Long Context

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Llama 2-34B?

Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#256); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Llama 2-34B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.