Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 7.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Llama 4 Maverick's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.4 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 39.5% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 81% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Granite 4.0 Micro accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 128K |
| Max output | 118K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1302 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1281 |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 20.6% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1299 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 67% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | 81% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | 65% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1259 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1277 |
| LMArena French | — | 1259 |
| LMArena German | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1293 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84.9% | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1267 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1280 |
Writing & Preference Granite 4.0 Micro leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| WildBench | 67% | 80% |
| LMArena Text | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1267 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1289 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 7.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Llama 4 Maverick's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Llama 4 Maverick?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.
Which has the bigger context window?
Granite 4.0 Micro does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 4 Maverick share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.