Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 8.6% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Codestral 22B was developed as a specialized coding model from Mistral AI, designed to excel at code generation, completion, and understanding tasks. Built with 22 billion parameters optimized for programming, it serves developers requiring advanced assistance with software development across multiple programming languages.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the Granite base model, designed to follow instructions reliably in enterprise settings. Built to serve business applications requiring dependable language understanding, it provides IBM's accessible interface for enterprise AI.
10 months newer

Codestral-22B
Mistral AI
2024-05-29

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Codestral-22B

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Codestral-22B

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Codestral-22B

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct