Model comparison

Claude Instant vs Granite 4.0 H Small

Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#213); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Claude Instant Anthropic

28.8

Unranked Sparse

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 23.4 to 18.8.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Instant and Granite 4.0 H Small specifications
Claude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index28.835.9
Released2023-08-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked719

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding—1247
HumanEval+50.6%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

Claude Instant: 18.8, Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts—1240
DTBench45.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.2—

Math Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
Omni-MATH—29.6%
LMArena Math—1251
GSM8K86.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
MMLU-Pro—56.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%
GPQA (HELM)—38.3%
LMArena Expert—1244
ARC (AI2) Challenge86.3%—
MMLU73.4%—
TriviaQA78.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English—1216
LMArena Chinese—1250
LMArena Russian—1198
LMArena Spanish—1258

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
IFEval—89%
LMArena Instruction Following—1221

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query—1240

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text—1241
LMArena Creative Writing—1210
WildBench—73.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1243

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Instant better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#213); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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