Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Base leads with 26.9% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Base supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Granite 3.3 8B Base is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Base is a multimodal language model developed by IBM. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 64.3% across 20 benchmarks. It excels particularly in HumanEval (89.7%), AttaQ (88.5%), HumanEval+ (86.1%). As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents IBM's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.3% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (91.0%), AIME 2024 (80.4%), LiveBench (74.3%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
13 days newer
Granite 3.3 8B Base
IBM
2025-04-16
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 26 common benchmarks
Granite 3.3 8B Base
Qwen3 30B A3B
Granite 3.3 8B Base
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Granite 3.3 8B Base
Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Granite 3.3 8B Base
Qwen3 30B A3B
Granite 3.3 8B Base
Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita