// COMPARISON

Granite 3.2 2B

A head-to-head benchmark comparison of Granite 3.2 2B across 10 evaluations.

The models

Language Open (Restricted)
Params
2.5B
Context
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Released
Feb 2025

The new Granite 3.2 8B Instruct and Granite 3.2 2B Instruct offer experimental chain-of-thought reasoning capabilities that significantly improve their ability .

Full Granite 3.2 2B specs β†’

Benchmark comparison

Benchmark Granite 3.2 2B
code
HumanEval 80.13%
HumanEval+ 73.39%
general
AlpacaEval 2 34.51%
ArenaHard 24.86%
IFEval 61.55%
MMLU 57.18%
math
GSM8K 67.02%
reasoning
BIG-Bench Hard 52.27%
DROP 21.12%
safety
TruthfulQA 59.8%

Best result per row highlighted in cyan. Each benchmark links to its definition and sources; each model links to its full scorecard.

Frequently asked questions

Which of these models is best for coding? β–Ά

Granite 3.2 2B has the strongest result on HumanEval among the models compared here. See the code-category rows in the table for the full picture.

How many benchmarks are compared? β–Ά

This comparison covers 10 benchmarks on which at least one of the selected models has a published score.

Where do the benchmark scores come from? β–Ά

Scores are aggregated from official model cards, technical reports and standard public evaluations, and link back to each benchmark's source. They are updated as new results are published.

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