Model comparison

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct vs Qwen1.5-7B

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct IBM

31.6

Rank #270 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Granite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index31.631.4
Released—2024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked1413

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Category by category

Coding Qwen1.5-7B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.7 (#301), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding11121107
BigCodeBench Instruct29.3%—
BigCodeBench Complete35.4%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 20.9 (#230), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts10921065

Math Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 32.8 (#210), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math11431080

Knowledge Too close to call

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 29.6 (#236), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert10871055
MMLU—62.6%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-7B leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 27.2 (#276), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English10371058
LMArena Chinese10631141
LMArena Russian10601006

Instruction Following Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 56.0 (#276), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following10881058

Long Context Too close to call

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 34.0 (#252), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query11221090

Writing & Preference Granite 3.0 8b Instruct leads

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#285), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 3.0 8b InstructQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text10961083
LMArena Creative Writing10711035
LMArena Multi-Turn10631062

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.6 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Granite 3.0 8b Instruct or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.2 versus 29.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 3.0 8b Instruct and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.0 8b Instruct has 14 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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