Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 3.2 3B
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MetaSummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 46.7 to 24.7.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.33 for Llama 3.2 3B.
- Llama 3.2 3B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 131K.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 28.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Max output | 118K | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $0.05 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $0.33 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 23.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1098 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 28.3% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 21.9% |
| BALROG | — | 10.1% |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1095 |
Math Llama 3.2 3B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1126 |
Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1090 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1019 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1017 |
| LMArena German | — | 1056 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 949 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1089 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1100 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 3.2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1094 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 595 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1105 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 3.2 3B?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Llama 3.2 3B?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B lists at $0.05 and $0.33.
Which has the bigger context window?
Llama 3.2 3B does, with 131K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3.2 3B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.