Noometry

Model comparison

Granite 4.1 30B vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max 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

34.0

Unranked Sparse

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Granite 4.1 30B scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 54.4 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 25.8% for Granite 4.1 30B and 53.2% for Qwen3.8 Max.
  • Granite 4.1 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Granite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
ProviderIBMAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.056.8
Released2026-04-292026-08-02
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked239

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 35.2, Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
SciCode25.8%53.2%
DeepSWE—57.5%
LMArena WebDev—1674
FrontierSWE—17.8%
LMArena Coding—1502

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents—63.3%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%
GDP.pdf—23.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Granite 4.1 30B: 22.4, Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
CritPt0%20%
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
Chess Puzzles—40%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
DTBench—92%
LMCA—46.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index—156.41

Math Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—100%
ProofBench—58%
LMArena Math—1499

Knowledge Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond—92.7%
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
LMArena Expert—1507

Multimodal Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision—1314
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English—1472
LMArena Chinese—1538
LMArena French—1503
LMArena German—1483
LMArena Japanese—1467
LMArena Korean—1461
LMArena Russian—1481
LMArena Spanish—1492

Instruction Following Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following—1479

Long Context Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query—1489

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Granite 4.1 30B: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

BenchmarkGranite 4.1 30BQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text—1483
LMArena Creative Writing—1479
LMArena Multi-Turn—1489

Frequently asked questions

Is Granite 4.1 30B better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max 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 Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 35.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Granite 4.1 30B and Qwen3.8 Max share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.1 30B has 2 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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