Model comparison

Granite 4.0 H Small vs o1

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.6

Rank #140 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where o1 leads 50.3 to 37.6.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.0 H Small and o1 specifications
Granite 4.0 H Smallo1
ProviderIBMOpenAI
Noometry Index35.940.6
Released—2024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—100K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$60
Results tracked1952

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Category by category

Coding o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207), o1: 45.7 (#64)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Coding12471367
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
WeirdML—47.6%
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: —, o1: 24.3 (#111)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
Cybench—10%
METR Time Horizons—51.1%

Reasoning o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164), o1: 27.5 (#103)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Hard Prompts12401372
SimpleBench—41.7%
ARC-AGI-1—30.7%
Chess Puzzles—15%
EnigmaEval—5.7%
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
DTBench—74.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
LMCA—22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—141.92
LiveBench—75.7%

Math o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219), o1: 34.9 (#150)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Math12511388
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—14.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%
Omni-MATH29.6%—
LiveBench Math—80.3%
MATH Level 5—94.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—9.3%

Knowledge o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210), o1: 41.5 (#101)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Expert12441362
GPQA Diamond—76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—8%
SimpleQA Verified—41.1%
MMLU-Pro56.9%—
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)38.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.0 H Small: —, o1: 33.6 (#87)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Vision—1168
GeoBench—80%
VPCT—37%
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223), o1: 48.8 (#137)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Non-English12161359
LMArena Chinese12501394
LMArena Russian11981356
LMArena Spanish12581345
LMArena French—1343
LMArena German—1337
LMArena Japanese—1346
LMArena Korean—1396

Instruction Following o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178), o1: 75.0 (#82)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Instruction Following12211368
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%
IFEval89%—

Long Context o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Longer Query12401378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference o1 leads

Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222), o1: 55.8 (#139)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGranite 4.0 H Smallo1
LMArena Text12411366
LMArena Creative Writing12101347
LMArena Multi-Turn12431368
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
WildBench73.9%—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than o1?

o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 35.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Granite 4.0 H Small or o1 better for coding?

o1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.7 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and o1 share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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