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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct vs Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

IBM · released

Wins 0 of 6 areas

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Meta · released

Wins 3 of 6 areas

Coding · Long documents · Following instructions

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct wins more areas, narrowly.

Scores updated · 32 tests both models report · How we compare

Where each one wins

Tests won in each of the six areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.

Agents, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.

What it costs

Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct$0.03 to read · $0.25 to write$0.28Price from Artificial Analysis
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct$0.02 to read · $0.05 to write$0.07Price from Artificial Analysis

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs 75% less for the same work.

The biggest differences

The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.

Where Llama 3.1 8B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+53.2points aheadLlama 3.1 8B Instruct57Granite 3.3 8B Instruct3.8
  • Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+14.7points aheadLlama 3.1 8B Instruct18Granite 3.3 8B Instruct3.3
  • Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+6.2points aheadLlama 3.1 8B Instruct28.6Granite 3.3 8B Instruct22.4

Where Granite 3.3 8B Instruct pulls ahead

  • Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+7.9points aheadGranite 3.3 8B Instruct33.8Llama 3.1 8B Instruct25.9
  • Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+1.2points aheadGranite 3.3 8B Instruct9.7Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8.5

Every test, side by side

All 32 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.

CodingLlama 3.1 8B Instruct

Full coding ranking

AgentsEven

Full agents ranking

ReasoningEven

Full reasoning ranking

FactsEven

Full facts ranking

Long documentsLlama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • AA-LCRLlama 3.1 8B Instruct by 14.73.318+14.7

Full long documents ranking

Following instructionsLlama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • IFBenchLlama 3.1 8B Instruct by 6.222.428.6+6.2

Full following instructions ranking

Other results22 tests, not counted

Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.

Questions people ask

Which is better, Granite 3.3 8B Instruct or Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct wins three of the six areas where both have results: coding, long documents and following instructions. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct wins none. They are level on agents, reasoning and facts.

Which is better for coding?

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct. It wins 1 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Granite 3.3 8B Instruct wins none, and 1 is a tie.

Which is cheaper?

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct costs $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct costs $0.02 and $0.05. That makes Llama 3.1 8B Instruct about 75% cheaper for the same work.

How do you compare the two?

We use the 32 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 10 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 22 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.