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Model comparison

Grok 4 vs Granite 4.0 H Small

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 H Small IBM

36.5

Rank #214 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 37.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA (HELM): 72.7% for Grok 4 and 38.3% for Granite 4.0 H Small.
  • Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
ProviderxAIIBM
Noometry Index48.136.5
Released2025-07-09—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4819

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Coding14081249
Aider Polyglot79.6%—
WeirdML45.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
Terminal-Bench27.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard63%—
GDPval21.1%—
Cybench43%—
DeepResearch Bench47.3%—
BALROG43.6%—
LMArena Search1142—
METR Time Horizons66.6%—

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Hard Prompts14091240
ARC-AGI-216%—
SimpleBench60.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%—
ARC-AGI-166.7%—
Chess Puzzles28%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.44—
ForecastBench60.9—

Math Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
Omni-MATH60.3%29.6%
LMArena Math14221247
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202584%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)19.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
MMLU-Pro85.1%56.9%
GPQA (HELM)72.7%38.3%
LMArena Expert14151251
GPQA Diamond87%—
Confabulations12.4%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.2%

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Granite 4.0 H Small: —

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Vision1210—
GeoBench45%—

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Non-English14031216
LMArena Chinese14271249
LMArena Russian14101201
LMArena Spanish14201258
LMArena French1418—
LMArena German1429—
LMArena Japanese1394—
LMArena Korean1377—

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
IFEval94.9%89%
LMArena Instruction Following13871222

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Longer Query14091242
Fiction.LiveBench94.4%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)

BenchmarkGrok 4Granite 4.0 H Small
LMArena Text14111241
LMArena Creative Writing13971211
WildBench79.7%73.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn14161242
Short-Story Creative Writing76.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 4 better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 4 or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.

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