Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Granite 4.0 H Small

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

36.5

Rank #214 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4 leads 61.2 to 43.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 70.8% for Claude Opus 4 and 38.3% for Granite 4.0 H Small.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Granite 4.0 H Small specifications
Claude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index43.136.5
Released2025-05-22—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5619

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding14421249
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts13991240
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
Omni-MATH61.6%29.6%
LMArena Math13901247
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
MMLU-Pro87.5%56.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%5.2%
GPQA (HELM)70.8%38.3%
LMArena Expert13861251
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
Confabulations15.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English13621216
LMArena Chinese13861249
LMArena Russian13921201
LMArena Spanish13891258
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
IFEval91.8%89%
LMArena Instruction Following14061222

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query14221242
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text13771241
LMArena Creative Writing13871211
WildBench85.2%73.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13961242
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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