Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4.5 vs Granite 4.0 H Small

GPT-4.5 and Granite 4.0 H Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 36.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.5 OpenAI

37.2

Rank #208 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

36.5

Rank #214 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where GPT-4.5 leads 52.5 to 38.6.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
ProviderOpenAIIBM
Noometry Index37.236.5
Released2025-02-27—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4219

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 42.2 (#109), Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding13961249
Aider Polyglot44.9%—
WeirdML39.4%—
LiveBench Coding75.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 27.9 (#97), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
Cybench17.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4.5: 13.9 (#330), Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts14031240
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench34.5%—
ARC-AGI-110.3%—
EnigmaEval3.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning71.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis64.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index136.74—
ForecastBench61.7—
LiveBench69%—

Math GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 32.6 (#211), Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Math14121247
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202537.8%—
Omni-MATH—29.6%
LiveBench Math69.3%—
MATH Level 578.6%—

Knowledge Too close to call

GPT-4.5: 32.5 (#211), Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Expert13941251
GPQA Diamond68.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%—
MMLU-Pro—56.9%
Confabulations13.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%
GPQA (HELM)—38.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4.5: 37.6 (#71), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Vision1195—
VPCT45%—

Multilingual GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 52.5 (#83), Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English14131216
LMArena Chinese14211249
LMArena Russian14191201
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1457—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Spanish—1258

Instruction Following GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 72.6 (#134), Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Instruction Following14041222
LiveBench Instruction Following72.3%—
IFEval—89%

Long Context GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 40.4 (#155), Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query14061242
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4.5 leads

GPT-4.5: 56.9 (#134), Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)

BenchmarkGPT-4.5Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text14171241
LMArena Creative Writing13941211
LMArena Multi-Turn14441242
Short-Story Creative Writing75.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1258—
WildBench—73.9%
LiveBench Language61.5%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.5 better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

GPT-4.5 and Granite 4.0 H Small score almost the same on the Noometry Index (37.2 vs 36.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is GPT-4.5 or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

GPT-4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.2 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.5 and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.5 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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