Model comparison
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct vs Phi-4
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct scores higher in 4 categories and Phi-4 in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads 30.4 to 19.6.
Side by side
| Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.8 | 30.9 |
| Released | — | 2024-12-11 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.07 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.14 |
| Results tracked | 13 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 33.9 (#232), Phi-4: 33.8 (#237)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1186 | 1231 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 30.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 23.9 (#113), Phi-4: 22.6 (#120)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 27.1% | 28.8% |
| BALROG | — | 11.6% |
Reasoning Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 21.2 (#204), Phi-4: 17.0 (#287)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1146 | 1220 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 47.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 45.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 130.43 |
| LiveBench | — | 41.6% |
Math Granite 3.1 8b Instruct leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.4 (#210), Phi-4: 19.6 (#279)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1152 | 1246 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 13.8% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 42% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 64.9% |
Knowledge Phi-4 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 30.6 (#218), Phi-4: 32.5 (#204)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1142 | 1203 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 56.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 29.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 3.7% |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
Multilingual Phi-4 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 31.1 (#255), Phi-4: 37.4 (#232)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1099 | 1197 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1145 | 1211 |
| LMArena Russian | 1092 | 1209 |
| LMArena French | — | 1223 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1158 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1151 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1234 |
Instruction Following Phi-4 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 58.9 (#254), Phi-4: 60.6 (#246)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1131 | 1201 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.4% |
Long Context Phi-4 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.2 (#236), Phi-4: 36.9 (#221)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1162 | 1217 |
Writing & Preference Phi-4 leads
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct: 35.7 (#261), Phi-4: 40.7 (#239)
| Benchmark | Granite 3.1 8b Instruct | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1150 | 1217 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1129 | 1182 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1108 | 1206 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62.6% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 25.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct better than Phi-4?
Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Phi-4 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.8 vs 30.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 3.1 8b Instruct or Phi-4 better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.9 vs 33.8); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 3.1 8b Instruct and Phi-4 share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 3.1 8b Instruct has 13 scored results on Noometry and Phi-4 has 37.