Model comparison
Gemma 2B vs Granite 4.0 Micro
Gemma 2B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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GoogleSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 24.0.
Side by side
| Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-21 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 23 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |
Math Gemma 2B leads
Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1009 | — |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 2B: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | — |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 2B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
Gemma 2B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.