Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 1.7% higher average benchmark score. 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.
OpenAI
o4-mini is a multimodal language model developed by OpenAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 66.5% across 14 benchmarks. It excels particularly in AIME 2024 (93.4%), AIME 2025 (92.7%), MathVista (84.3%). It supports a 300K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents OpenAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Launched on the same date
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
o4-mini
OpenAI
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 27 common benchmarks
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
o4-mini
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
o4-mini
2024-05-31
Available providers and their performance metrics
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
o4-mini
OpenAI
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
o4-mini
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
o4-mini