Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct
Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in math, where Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads 31.6 to 12.0.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 19 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 28.8 (#312)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1039 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.6% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 19.6 (#256)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1028 |
Math Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 31.6 (#222)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1089 |
Knowledge Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 26.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 984 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 25.2 (#285)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1000 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1016 |
| LMArena French | — | 1039 |
| LMArena German | — | 1006 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 899 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 856 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1004 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1059 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 51.8 (#294)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1023 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 30.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 996 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct: 27.1 (#301)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1024 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 989 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Mini 128k Instruct has 19.