Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Granite 4.0 H Small

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.5

Rank #316 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

35.9

Rank #213 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 29.3 to 10.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 71.3% for GPT-4o and 56.9% for Granite 4.0 H Small.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Granite 4.0 H Small specifications
GPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
ProviderOpenAIIBM
Noometry Index28.535.9
Released2024-05-13—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked7219

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Category by category

Coding Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4o: 25.1 (#323), Granite 4.0 H Small: 35.8 (#207)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding12971247
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%—
Aider Polyglot45.3%—
GSO0%—
WeirdML25.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%—
CadEval26%—
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4o: 20.8 (#133), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#338), Granite 4.0 H Small: 23.4 (#164)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts12811240
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench17.8%—
ARC-AGI-14.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
DTBench64.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LMCA16.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97—
ForecastBench57.7—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4o: 10.2 (#303), Granite 4.0 H Small: 29.3 (#219)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
Omni-MATH29.3%29.6%
LMArena Math12851251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—
MATH Level 553.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#235), Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.5 (#210)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
MMLU-Pro71.3%56.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%5.2%
GPQA (HELM)52%38.3%
LMArena Expert12501244
GPQA Diamond49.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%—
SimpleQA Verified26%—
Confabulations15.3%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4o: 33.9 (#85), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Vision1137—
Video-MME71.9%—
GeoBench71%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—

Multilingual GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 43.4 (#181), Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.7 (#223)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English12831216
LMArena Chinese12771250
LMArena Russian12861198
LMArena Spanish12921258
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1282—
LMArena Japanese1257—
LMArena Korean1234—

Instruction Following Granite 4.0 H Small leads

GPT-4o: 66.8 (#202), Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.9 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
IFEval81.7%89%
LMArena Instruction Following12781221
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#174), Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.6 (#209)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query12891240
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.8 (#160), Granite 4.0 H Small: 44.0 (#222)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text13001241
LMArena Creative Writing12911210
WildBench82.8%73.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13021243
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%—
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 28.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-4o or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 25.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4o and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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