Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Phi-4

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.6

Rank #270 Confirmed

Phi-4 Microsoft

31.2

Rank #279 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Phi-4 in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 32.8 to 20.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 35.4% for Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and 55.4% for Phi-4.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
ProviderIBMMicrosoft
Noometry Index31.631.2
Released—2024-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—128K
Max output—4K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.07
Output $ / M tokens—$0.14
Results tracked1437

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Category by category

Coding Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Phi-4: 34.4 (#239)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
BigCodeBench Instruct29.3%45.5%
LMArena Coding11121231
BigCodeBench Complete35.4%55.4%
LiveBench Coding—30.7%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: —, Phi-4: 22.8 (#128)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.8%
BALROG—11.6%

Reasoning Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Phi-4: 17.7 (#291)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Hard Prompts10921220
Chess Puzzles—1%
LiveBench Reasoning—47.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—45.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.42
LiveBench—41.6%

Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Phi-4: 20.8 (#285)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Math11431246
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—13.8%
LiveBench Math—42%
MATH Level 5—64.9%

Knowledge Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Phi-4: 32.6 (#209)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Expert10871203
GPQA Diamond—56.1%
Confabulations—29.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—3.7%
MMLU—84.8%

Multilingual Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Phi-4: 37.2 (#237)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Non-English10371197
LMArena Chinese10631212
LMArena Russian10601209
LMArena French—1224
LMArena German—1222
LMArena Japanese—1158
LMArena Korean—1151
LMArena Spanish—1234

Instruction Following Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Phi-4: 60.4 (#251)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Instruction Following10881201
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.4%

Long Context Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Phi-4: 36.9 (#226)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Longer Query11221217

Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Phi-4: 40.5 (#244)

BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructPhi-4
LMArena Text10961217
LMArena Creative Writing10711182
LMArena Multi-Turn10631206
Short-Story Creative Writing—62.6%
LiveBench Language—25.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Phi-4?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Phi-4 better for coding?

Phi-4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.

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