Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 3.1 8b Instruct
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 33.0 to 14.8.
- Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 32.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 34.5 (#233)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1186 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 24.1 (#120)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 27.1% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 22.1 (#207)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1145 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.0 (#209)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1152 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#220)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1142 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.9 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1099 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1145 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1092 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.6 (#259)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1131 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1162 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.5 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1150 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1129 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1108 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 3.1 8b Instruct?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13.