Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 2.3% 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 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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 32B was created as a larger variant in the Qwen 2.5 family, designed to deliver enhanced capabilities with 32 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring stronger reasoning and generation quality, it represents a powerful option for demanding language understanding tasks.
6 months newer

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct