Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Qwen Plus
Granite 4.0 H Small and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Plus in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen Plus leads 52.2 to 43.8.
- Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 37.1 |
| Released | — | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen Plus leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | 1328 |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | 1317 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| DTBench | — | 81.1% |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1247 | 1326 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 17.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | 1328 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 48.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | 1347 |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | 1323 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1251 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | 1303 |
| IFEval | 89% | — |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | 1336 |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Qwen Plus?
Granite 4.0 H Small and Qwen Plus score almost the same on the Noometry Index (36.5 vs 37.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Qwen Plus better for coding?
Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Qwen Plus share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.