# Granite 4.1 30B vs Kimi K3

> Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#12); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/granite-4-1-30b-vs-kimi-k3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 30B scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K3 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K3 leads 63.0 to 21.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B and 59.5% for Kimi K3.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Moonshot AI |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 59.5 |
| Rank | — | 12 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $3 |
| Output $/M | — | $15 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Granite 4.1 30B: 34.6
- Kimi K3: 60.6 (#8)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 25.8% | 59.5% |
| DeepSWE | — | 68.5% |
| FrontierCode | — | 44.2% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1659 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 25.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 82.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1509 |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,524 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 41.8 (#19)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 50.6% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 37.1% |
| PostTrainBench | — | 32% |
| GBAEval | — | 48.3% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 19% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,165 |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.1 30B: 21.7
- Kimi K3: 63.0 (#15)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 23.4% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 60.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.7% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 93.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 94.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 39% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1495 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 26% |
| DTBench | — | 91.2% |
| LMCA | — | 52.7% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 95% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 157.68 |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.1 |

## Math

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 74.0 (#13)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 72.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 39% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 87.8% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 97.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 87% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1493 |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 63.2 (#19)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 93.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 50.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1520 |

## Multimodal

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 38.4 (#58)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 29.5% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 34.2% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 56.5 (#20)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1466 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1528 |
| LMArena French | — | 1488 |
| LMArena German | — | 1474 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1492 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1465 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1481 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1478 |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 77.8 (#13)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1481 |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 45.8 (#27)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1494 |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.1 30B: —
- Kimi K3: 76.7 (#4)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.1 30B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1476 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1452 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 2082 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1488 |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.1 30B better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 has enough public results to be ranked (#12); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Granite 4.1 30B or Kimi K3 better for coding?

Kimi K3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.6 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 30B and Kimi K3 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 30B has 2 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.