Model comparison

Granite 4.1 8b vs o3-pro

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 36.8 on the Noometry Index.

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Granite 4.1 8b IBM

36.8

Rank #202 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.7

Rank #94 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in long context, where o3-pro leads 72.1 to 38.7.
  • Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.1 8b and o3-pro specifications
Granite 4.1 8bo3-pro
ProviderIBMOpenAI
Noometry Index36.842.7
Released—2025-06-10
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$20
Output $ / M tokens—$80
Results tracked1312

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Category by category

Coding o3-pro leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 29.9 (#291), o3-pro: 55.1 (#22)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1190—
WeirdML—58.2%
LMArena Coding1313—

Reasoning Too close to call

Granite 4.1 8b: 24.6 (#142), o3-pro: 24.1 (#152)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.1%
ARC-AGI-1—59.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts1294—
DTBench—86.9%
LMCA—38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—147.43

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.1 8b: 33.8 (#167), o3-pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
LMArena Math1311—

Knowledge Granite 4.1 8b leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 35.5 (#171), o3-pro: 29.0 (#234)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
Confabulations—14.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—23.3%
LMArena Expert1310—

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.1 8b: 41.8 (#199), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
LMArena Non-English1261—
LMArena Chinese1335—
LMArena Russian1238—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.1 8b: 67.0 (#198), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1268—

Long Context o3-pro leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#188), o3-pro: 72.1 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
LMArena Longer Query1275—

Writing & Preference o3-pro leads

Granite 4.1 8b: 48.3 (#199), o3-pro: 57.1 (#128)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.1 8bo3-pro
LMArena Text1291—
LMArena Creative Writing1249—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
LMArena Multi-Turn1269—

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.1 8b better than o3-pro?

o3-pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 36.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.1 8b or o3-pro better for coding?

o3-pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.1 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 8b and o3-pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 8b has 13 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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