Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct
Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
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MicrosoftSummary
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads 29.1 to 9.9.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.3 |
| 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 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.9 (#318)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 20.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1101 |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 14.8 (#323)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 15.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1100 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 30.3% |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 58.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.1% |
| HellaSwag | — | 77% |
| LiveBench | — | 24% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 27.6 (#248)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 17.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1151 |
Knowledge Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 29.1 (#240)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1067 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 90.7% |
| MMLU | — | 75.7% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 88% |
| TriviaQA | — | 58.1% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 28.5 (#272)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena French | — | 1135 |
| LMArena German | — | 1080 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 966 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 894 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1111 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1111 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 51.9 (#292)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 47.2% |
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1087 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 33.0 (#267)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1088 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct: 31.1 (#284)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1110 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1083 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1068 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 12.9% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct?
Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Phi 3 Small 8k Instruct has 32.