Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Qwen3 Coder Next
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 34.3 |
| Released | — | 2026-02-02 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.80 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Qwen3 Coder Next: 36.3 (#210)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 32.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 34.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Qwen3 Coder Next: 22.4 (#196)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | — |
Math Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1247 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 56.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 38.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1251 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 89% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Qwen3 Coder Next: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Qwen3 Coder Next |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | — |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Qwen3 Coder Next?
Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 34.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Qwen3 Coder Next better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (36.4 vs 36.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Qwen3 Coder Next share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Coder Next has 3.