Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Qwen-14B
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen-14B leads 31.2 to 12.0.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2023-09-24 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 118K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | — |
| Results tracked | 8 | 18 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#288)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1071 |
Reasoning Too close to call
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Qwen-14B: 19.6 (#257)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1027 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 55% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 113.03 |
| LAMBADA | — | 71.1% |
| PIQA | — | 79.9% |
Math Qwen-14B leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Qwen-14B: 31.2 (#227)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1068 |
| GSM8K | — | 61.3% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Qwen-14B: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 84.4% |
| BoolQ | — | 86.2% |
| MMLU | — | 66.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen-14B: 27.5 (#275)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1041 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1077 |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Qwen-14B: 52.4 (#289)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1031 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Qwen-14B: 31.3 (#280)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1028 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Qwen-14B: 27.6 (#299)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Qwen-14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1051 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1028 |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1022 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Qwen-14B?
Qwen-14B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Qwen-14B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-14B has 18.