Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.4 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 45.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 20.5% for Granite 3.0 2b Instruct.
  • Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct specifications
Claude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.330.2
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4613

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%20.5%
LMArena Coding12641090
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts12461073
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Math12731117
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Expert12231064
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12581033
LMArena Chinese12481070
LMArena Russian12801045
LMArena French1274—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12481056
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12591071

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Text12621080
LMArena Creative Writing12351046
LMArena Multi-Turn12751053
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 30.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.

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