Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct IBM

30.2

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads 29.7 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42.7% for Claude 3 Sonnet 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 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index28.830.2
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked3013

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.8 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%20.5%
LMArena Coding12231090
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 19.6 (#234)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts11971073
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.7 (#215)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Math12131117
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.4 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Expert11731064
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.1 (#273)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Non-English12051033
LMArena Chinese11881070
LMArena Russian12271045
LMArena French1228—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 54.2 (#279)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following12001056

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#263)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Longer Query12111071

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.8 (#287)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGranite 3.0 2b Instruct
LMArena Text12181080
LMArena Creative Writing11861046
LMArena Multi-Turn12271053

Frequently asked questions

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

Granite 3.0 2b Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.2 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 27.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.

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