# Granite 4.0 H Small vs Llama 2-34B

> Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#214); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/ibm-granite-h-small-vs-llama-2-34b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | — |
| Rank | 214 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | — |

## Reasoning

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 44.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 105.2 |
| PIQA | — | 81.9% |
| WinoGrande | — | 76.7% |

## Math

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1247 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 42.2% |

## Knowledge

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 54.5% |
| BoolQ | — | 83.7% |
| MMLU | — | 62.6% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 58.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 84.6% |

## Multilingual

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | — |

## Long Context

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)
- Llama 2-34B: —

| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Llama 2-34B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | — |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Llama 2-34B?

Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#214); Llama 2-34B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Llama 2-34B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-34B has 10.