Model comparison
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads 33.4 to 22.6.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.2 | 33.4 |
| Released | — | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 12 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.1 2b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.4 (#257), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1149 | 1276 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 22.0 (#209), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1138 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 119.49 |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |
Math Too close to call
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 33.1 (#206), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1159 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 30.8 (#224), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1131 | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| MMLU | — | 79.1% |
Multilingual Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 29.1 (#269), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1068 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1139 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 1063 | 1228 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 57.7 (#264), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1116 | 1223 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 35.0 (#244), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1155 | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct: 34.1 (#274), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 2b Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1127 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1116 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1099 | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (33.2 vs 33.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 2b Instruct or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Granite 3.1 2b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.4 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 2b Instruct and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 2b Instruct has 12 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.