Model comparison

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 2-13B

Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 2-13B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama 2-13B leads 31.1 to 12.0.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B specifications
Granite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
ProviderIBMMeta
Noometry Index29.029.6
Released2025-10-022023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output118K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.017—
Output $ / M tokens$0.11—
Results tracked832

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding—1062

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1051
DTBench—42.2%
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—106.17
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Llama 2-13B leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.8%—
Omni-MATH20.9%—
LMArena Math—1065
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Llama 2-13B leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
GPQA Diamond28.3%—
MMLU-Pro39.5%—
GPQA (HELM)30.7%—
LMArena Expert—1030
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English—1024
LMArena Chinese—1001
LMArena French—1044
LMArena German—1009
LMArena Japanese—894
LMArena Korean—953
LMArena Russian—1055
LMArena Spanish—1087

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
IFEval84.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following—1045

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query—1064

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 MicroLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text—1084
LMArena Creative Writing—1047
WildBench67%—
LMArena Multi-Turn—1050

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 2-13B?

Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 2-13B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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