Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Gemma 3 4B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 2 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Granite 4.0 Micro leads 19.2 to 13.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 23.2% for Gemma 3 4B and 28.3% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.04 / $0.08 for Gemma 3 4B.
  • Gemma 3 4B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index28.129.0
Released2025-03-122025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K131K
Max output4K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.04$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$0.08$0.11
Results tracked228

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Coding1230—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard19.6%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles0%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1253—
DTBench50.9%—
LMCA2.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index116.02—

Math Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.5%2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LMArena Math1239—

Knowledge Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond23.2%28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1223—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1273—
LMArena German1281—
LMArena Russian1294—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1239—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1273—

Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1291—
LMArena Creative Writing1271—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1068—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1255—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Gemma 3 4B and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Gemma 3 4B lists at $0.04 and $0.08.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 4B does, with 131K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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