Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct leads with 2.5% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct is available on 4 providers. 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 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
6 months newer

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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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