Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Claude 3 Opus and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index29.529.0
Released2024-02-292025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—118K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.017
Output $ / M tokens—$0.11
Results tracked468

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles5%0%
SimpleBench23.5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond47.2%28.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Confabulations22.7%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Claude 3 Opus and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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