Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 2.0% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is available on 5 providers. 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.
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is a multimodal language model developed by Meta. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 71.3% across 13 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AI2D (92.3%), DocVQA (90.1%), MGSM (86.9%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 5 API providers. 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 2024, it represents Meta's latest advancement in AI technology.
6 months newer
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 26 common benchmarks
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Bedrock
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
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