Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 3.1% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is a multimodal language model developed by IBM. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.8% across 14 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.
Moonshot AI
Kimi K2 Base is a language model developed by Moonshot AI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 69.2% across 13 benchmarks. It excels particularly in C-Eval (92.5%), GSM8k (92.1%), MMLU-redux-2.0 (90.2%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Moonshot AI's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Kimi K2 Base
Moonshot AI
2025-07-11
Average performance across 25 common benchmarks
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Kimi K2 Base
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Kimi K2 Base
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Kimi K2 Base