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Atria Dawn Preview vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.4.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · IBM · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.4, ranking #10 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.50/M input and $0.50/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
2.4
#315
Reasoning
50.5
#12
2.8
#304
Coding
36.2
#22
11.2
#159
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
— / M
$0.50 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.50 / M
Context window
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128,000

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 14 for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 3.3 8B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

736.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 736.0B more parameters than Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, making it 9200.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
8.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
8.0B
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Granite 3.3 8B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Granite 3.3 8B Instruct specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
Sat Sep 19 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Granite 3.3 8B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was released on 2025-04-16.

Atria Dawn Preview is 17 months newer than Granite 3.3 8B Instruct.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.4yr newer
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Apr 16, 2025

1.4 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-04-01, while Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Granite 3.3 8B Instruct's training data extends to 2024-04-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Atria Dawn Preview's cutoff date.

Atria Dawn Preview

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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Apr 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 2.4. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is made by IBM. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Granite 3.3 8B Instruct in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct scores HumanEval: 89.7%, AttaQ: 88.5%, HumanEval+: 86.1%, AIME 2024: 81.2%, GSM8k: 80.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports 128K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 2.4), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is developed by IBM.

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