Model comparison
GPT-4o vs Granite 4.0 Micro
GPT-4o and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o 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-4o leads 28.8 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 71.3% for GPT-4o and 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
- 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-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 28.6 | 29.0 |
| Released | 2024-05-13 | 2025-10-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 118K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.017 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | $0.11 |
| Results tracked | 72 | 8 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 31% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 45.3% | — |
| GSO | 0% | — |
| WeirdML | 25.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 51.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1297 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.1% | — |
| CadEval | 26% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 87.2% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GDPval | 9.9% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 8.6% | — |
| Cybench | 12.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1006 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 40.8% | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 13% | 0% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 17.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 55.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | — |
| DTBench | 64.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| LMCA | 16.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 128.97 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 55.3% | — |
Math Granite 4.0 Micro leads
GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.4% | 2.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 29.3% | 20.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 49.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1285 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 53.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge GPT-4o leads
GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.2% | 28.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 71.3% | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 52% | 30.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 2.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 26% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1250 | — |
| MMLU | 88.1% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1137 | — |
| Video-MME | 71.9% | — |
| GeoBench | 71% | — |
| VPCT | 40% | — |
| ScienceQA | 88.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | — |
| LMArena French | 1304 | — |
| LMArena German | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1257 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1292 | — |
Instruction Following Granite 4.0 Micro leads
GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.7% | 84.9% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 68.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1278 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Granite 4.0 Micro: —
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 66.7% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads
GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)
| Benchmark | GPT-4o | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 82.8% | 67% |
| LMArena Text | 1300 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1302 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 47.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-4o better than Granite 4.0 Micro?
GPT-4o and Granite 4.0 Micro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.6 vs 29.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o 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-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.
Which has the bigger context window?
Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Granite 4.0 Micro share?
8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.