Model comparison
Granite 4.0 Micro vs o1
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 644× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.0 Micro scores higher in 0 categories and o1 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where o1 leads 41.5 to 9.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro and 73.3% for o1.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
- o1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 40.9 |
| Released | 2025-10-02 | 2024-09-12 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | 200K |
| Max output | 118K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.017 | $15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.11 | $60 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 52 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, o1: 46.1 (#70)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1367 |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, o1: 24.6 (#117)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |
Reasoning o1 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265), o1: 27.9 (#111)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 15% |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1371 |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 141.91 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |
Math o1 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307), o1: 36.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.8% | 73.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 20.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1388 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 9.3% |
Knowledge o1 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304), o1: 41.5 (#110)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.3% | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 39.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 30.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1361 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, o1: 34.2 (#93)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, o1: 48.6 (#142)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1394 |
| LMArena French | — | 1344 |
| LMArena German | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1345 |
Instruction Following o1 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169), o1: 74.8 (#86)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |
| IFEval | 84.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1367 |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 Micro: —, o1: 50.3 (#9)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1378 |
Writing & Preference o1 leads
Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216), o1: 55.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 Micro | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1348 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| WildBench | 67% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1369 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 Micro better than o1?
o1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 644× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or o1?
Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.
Which has the bigger context window?
o1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 Micro and o1 share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 Micro has 8 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.