Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Granite 4.1 30B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Granite 4.1 30B IBM

34.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.1 30B in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 67.3 to 35.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 61% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
ProviderAnthropicIBM
Noometry Index61.934.0
Released2026-09-282026-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked322

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: 35.2

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
SciCode61%25.8%
FrontierCode52.1%—
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
LMArena Coding1513—
ALE-Bench1,819—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Granite 4.1 30B: 22.4

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
CritPt31.4%0%
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1495—
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LMArena Math1510—
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
LMArena Expert1540—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Non-English1452—
LMArena Chinese1522—
LMArena Russian1451—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Instruction Following1495—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Longer Query1498—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Granite 4.1 30B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Granite 4.1 30B
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
LMArena Multi-Turn1474—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Granite 4.1 30B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#10); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Granite 4.1 30B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Granite 4.1 30B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 30B has 2.

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