Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 4.1 30B vs Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Granite 4.1 30B IBM

33.4

Unranked Sparse

Grok 4.5 xAI

55.0

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 30B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.5 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.5 leads 56.0 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B and 54.1% for Grok 4.5.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
ProviderIBMxAI
Noometry Index33.455.0
Released2026-04-292026-07-08
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked252

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.5 leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 34.6, Grok 4.5: 51.7 (#34)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
SciCode25.8%54.1%
DeepSWE—53.8%
FrontierCode—42.4%
LMArena WebDev—1552
WeirdML—46.4%
LMArena Coding—1473
ALE-Bench—1,309

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 44.4 (#15)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
APEX-Agents—56.2%
τ²-bench Banking—47.9%
PostTrainBench—23.4%
GBAEval—65.4%
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search—1213
Vending-Bench 2—3,887

Reasoning Grok 4.5 leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 21.7, Grok 4.5: 56.0 (#23)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
CritPt0%15.4%
ARC-AGI-2—52.6%
SimpleBench—70%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—83.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.9%
ARC-AGI-1—87.2%
Chess Puzzles—36%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1462
DTBench—96.5%
LMCA—45.2%
Surface Evolver Bench—74.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index—154.02

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 60.7 (#29)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—57.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—24.4%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—97.8%
ProofBench—31%
LMArena Math—1457

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 62.3 (#21)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
GPQA Diamond—93.4%
SimpleQA Verified—48.3%
LMArena Expert—1466

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 37.8 (#63)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
LMArena Vision—1287
Blueprint-Bench 2—27.3%
Furniture Assembly—22.5%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 54.5 (#43)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
LMArena Non-English—1439
LMArena Chinese—1497
LMArena French—1458
LMArena German—1448
LMArena Japanese—1425
LMArena Korean—1402
LMArena Russian—1447
LMArena Spanish—1452

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 76.3 (#45)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
LMArena Instruction Following—1446

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 44.8 (#54)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
LMArena Longer Query—1463

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.5: 65.9 (#40)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.5
LMArena Text—1448
LMArena Creative Writing—1442
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1579
LMArena Multi-Turn—1457

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.1 30B better than Grok 4.5?

Grok 4.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#22); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Granite 4.1 30B or Grok 4.5 better for coding?

Grok 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.7 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 30B and Grok 4.5 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 30B has 2 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.5 has 52.

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