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granite-3.1-8b-instruct benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place granite-3.1-8b-instruct, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
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#78of 85
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 24 across 2 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places granite-3.1-8b-instruct
LiveBench
Not measured by LiveBench.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#77of 79
Score 1208. Best run: granite-3.1-8b-instruct.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
#30of 37
Score 27.10%. Best run: Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct (FC).
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
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No gateway lists it.
Nearby
The models either side of granite-3.1-8b-instruct
- #75Gemma 3 12B25
- #76llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v124
- #77amazon-nova-pro-v1.024
- #78granite-3.1-8b-instruct24
- #79llama-3.1-8b-instruct24
- #80gpt-oss-20b23
- #81amazon-nova-micro-v1.023
Questions about granite-3.1-8b-instruct
How good is granite-3.1-8b-instruct?
granite-3.1-8b-instruct ranks #78 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 24 out of 100 across 2 leaderboards.
Is granite-3.1-8b-instruct better than amazon-nova-pro-v1.0?
Not on the consensus: amazon-nova-pro-v1.0 scores 24 to granite-3.1-8b-instruct's 24. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is granite-3.1-8b-instruct better than llama-3.1-8b-instruct?
On the consensus, yes: 24 to 24.
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