Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs Granite 4.0 Micro

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 368× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4 Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.3

Rank #281 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

28.8

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo 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 knowledge, where GPT-4 Turbo leads 24.3 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 46.6% for GPT-4 Turbo 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 $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderOpenAIIBM
Noometry Index30.328.8
Released2023-11-062025-10-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output4K118K
Input $ / M tokens$10$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$30$0.11
Results tracked368

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.4 (#247), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
LMArena Coding1268—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 14.9 (#311), Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles6%0%
SimpleBench25.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math Granite 4.0 Micro leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 8.6 (#316), Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%2.8%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LMArena Math1272—
MATH Level 546.7%—

Knowledge GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#263), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond46.6%28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Confabulations28.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.0 (#104), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.7 (#211), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1245—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1259—
LMArena Japanese1194—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1259—
LMArena Spanish1260—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 66.0 (#211), Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1250—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#200), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Longer Query1254—

Writing & Preference GPT-4 Turbo leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.9 (#201), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1272—
LMArena Creative Writing1269—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1267—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

GPT-4 Turbo is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 368× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4 Turbo's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4 Turbo 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; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4 Turbo and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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