Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 3.1-70B
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.1-70B 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 . 7 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 3.1-70B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.1-70B leads 24.2 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 65.3% for Llama 3.1-70B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.40 / $0.40 for Llama 3.1-70B.
- Granite 4.0 Micro accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.6 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-07-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Max output | 118K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $0.40 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 35 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 30.3 (#296)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | — | 9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 46.1% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1260 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.8% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 25.1 (#112)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 6.9% |
| BALROG | — | 27.9% |
Reasoning Llama 3.1-70B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 3.1-70B: 21.6 (#220)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1241 |
| DTBench | — | 60% |
| LMCA | — | 14.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 125.92 |
Math Llama 3.1-70B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 3.1-70B: 13.5 (#304)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 3.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | 21% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1252 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 36.7% |
Knowledge Llama 3.1-70B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 3.1-70B: 24.2 (#269)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 44.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | 65.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1209 |
| MMLU | — | 80.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 38.8 (#225)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1219 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1215 |
| LMArena French | — | 1261 |
| LMArena German | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1132 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1253 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 3.1-70B: 65.3 (#223)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | 82.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1231 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.1-70B: 37.6 (#214)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1241 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 3.1-70B: 35.4 (#267)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.1-70B |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | 75.8% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1261 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1232 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 784 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1256 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 3.1-70B?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.1-70B 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.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Llama 3.1-70B?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Llama 3.1-70B lists at $0.40 and $0.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.1-70B share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1-70B has 35.