Model comparison
Granite 4.0 H Small vs Sonar
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
PerplexitySummary
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Sonar leads 52.6 to 43.8.
- Granite 4.0 H Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 36.5 | 38.5 |
| Released | — | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 19 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1249 | — |
Reasoning Granite 4.0 H Small leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1240 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
Math Sonar leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 29.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1247 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| 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), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1201 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1258 | — |
Instruction Following Sonar leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| IFEval | 89% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1222 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1242 | — |
Writing & Preference Sonar leads
Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Granite 4.0 H Small | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1241 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1211 | — |
| WildBench | 73.9% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1242 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Granite 4.0 H Small better than Sonar?
Sonar is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 36.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Granite 4.0 H Small or Sonar better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (36.4 vs 35.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Granite 4.0 H Small and Sonar share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Granite 4.0 H Small has 19 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.