Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 4.1 30B vs Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); 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 4.6 xAI

56.8

Rank #19 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 30B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.6 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Grok 4.6 leads 61.3 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B and 56.5% for Grok 4.6.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
ProviderIBMxAI
Noometry Index33.456.8
Released2026-04-292026-08-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—500K
Max output—500K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked249

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.6 leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 34.6, Grok 4.6: 58.0 (#14)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
SciCode25.8%56.5%
DeepSWE—67.5%
FrontierCode—48%
CursorBench—41.4%
LMArena WebDev—1620
FrontierSWE—25.3%
WeirdML—67.3%
LMArena Coding—1464
ALE-Bench—1,508

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 39.4 (#25)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
APEX-Agents—65.3%
GDP.pdf—17.2%
Vending-Bench 2—9,047

Reasoning Grok 4.6 leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 21.7, Grok 4.6: 61.3 (#18)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
CritPt0%19.7%
ARC-AGI-2—67.1%
SimpleBench—75.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—80%
ARC-AGI-1—87.5%
Chess Puzzles—40%
EBR-Bench—30.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1445
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
DTBench—97.3%
LMCA—48.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.48

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 66.8 (#19)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—66%
FrontierMath Tier 4—31.7%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—99.2%
ProofBench—51%
LMArena Math—1416

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 63.3 (#18)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
GPQA Diamond—94%
SimpleQA Verified—49.3%
LMArena Expert—1463

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 43.9 (#18)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
LMArena Vision—1265
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.2%
Furniture Assembly—40%
LMArena Document—1452

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 53.3 (#67)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
LMArena Non-English—1422
LMArena Chinese—1479
LMArena French—1458
LMArena German—1425
LMArena Japanese—1383
LMArena Korean—1395
LMArena Russian—1427
LMArena Spanish—1408

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 75.6 (#59)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
LMArena Instruction Following—1431

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 44.4 (#62)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
LMArena Longer Query—1453

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Grok 4.6: 62.5 (#77)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BGrok 4.6
LMArena Text—1427
LMArena Creative Writing—1430
LMArena Multi-Turn—1422

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.1 30B better than Grok 4.6?

Grok 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#19); Granite 4.1 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Granite 4.1 30B or Grok 4.6 better for coding?

Grok 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.0 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 30B and Grok 4.6 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 30B has 2 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.6 has 49.

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