Model comparison
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Phi-4 Mini
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads 29.6 to 25.3.
Side by side
| Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.6 | 30.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.075 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 14 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Phi-4 Mini: 28.1 (#317)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 10.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 29.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1112 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 35.4% | — |
Reasoning Phi-4 Mini leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Phi-4 Mini: 22.4 (#195)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1092 | — |
Math Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1143 | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Phi-4 Mini: 25.3 (#262)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 23.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1087 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1037 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1063 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1060 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1088 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1122 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Phi-4 Mini: —
| Benchmark | Granite 3.0 8b Instruct | Phi-4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1096 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1071 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1063 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Phi-4 Mini?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Phi-4 Mini better for coding?
Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.7 versus 28.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Phi-4 Mini share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 Mini has 3.