Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct leads with 4.8% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. QwQ-32B-Preview 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
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
4 months newer

QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
DeepInfra

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
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