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Model comparison

Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Granite 4.1 30B

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.8 Flash Google

61.8

Rank #11 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 30B IBM

34.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.1 30B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 76.9 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 56.6% for Gemini 3.8 Flash and 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index61.834.0
Released2026-09-022026-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.75—
Output $ / M tokens$3.75—
Results tracked502

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 59.2 (#15), Granite 4.1 30B: 35.2

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
SciCode56.6%25.8%
DeepSWE73.8%—
FrontierCode41.2%—
CursorBench39.6%—
LMArena WebDev1584—
FrontierSWE19.6%—
WeirdML84.8%—
LMArena Coding1510—
ALE-Bench1,270—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 41.8 (#21), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
APEX-Agents64.3%—
Remote Labor Index5.8%—
GDP.pdf23.4%—
Vending-Bench 25,094—

Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 76.9 (#5), Granite 4.1 30B: 22.4

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
CritPt18.3%0%
ARC-AGI-289.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)97.4%—
ARC-AGI-198.5%—
Chess Puzzles61%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1508—
Mystery Game Puzzles47%—
DTBench95.7%—
LMCA52.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench76.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.71—

Math Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.3 (#28), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench48%—
LMArena Math1528—

Knowledge Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.8 (#2), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
GPQA Diamond95.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam44.5%—
SimpleQA Verified69.7%—
LMArena Expert1524—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.7 (#45), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
LMArena Vision1314—
Blueprint-Bench 238.6%—
Furniture Assembly31.7%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 58.0 (#5), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
LMArena Non-English1491—
LMArena Chinese1554—
LMArena French1498—
LMArena German1493—
LMArena Japanese1502—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1515—
LMArena Spanish1485—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.0 (#13), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
LMArena Instruction Following1490—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.3 (#24), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
LMArena Longer Query1508—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.2 (#15), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkGemini 3.8 FlashGranite 4.1 30B
LMArena Text1499—
LMArena Creative Writing1492—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1748—
LMArena Multi-Turn1501—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash better than Granite 4.1 30B?

Gemini 3.8 Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#11); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Gemini 3.8 Flash or Granite 4.1 30B better for coding?

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.2 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.8 Flash and Granite 4.1 30B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.8 Flash has 50 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 30B has 2.

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