# Claude Sonnet 4 vs Granite 4.1 8b

> Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 36.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-4-vs-granite-4-1-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 6 categories and Granite 4.1 8b in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 44.0 to 29.9.
- Granite 4.1 8b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 40.6 | 36.8 |
| Rank | 139 | 202 |
| Context | 200K | — |
| Input $/M | $3 | — |
| Output $/M | $15 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 4: 44.0 (#70)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 29.9 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1313 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1190 |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 4: 38.3 (#29)
- Granite 4.1 8b: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 4: 23.0 (#169)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 24.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1294 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 4: 41.5 (#71)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 33.8 (#167)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1311 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 4: 41.6 (#99)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 35.5 (#171)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1371 | 1310 |
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 4: 25.6 (#116)
- Granite 4.1 8b: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 4: 46.9 (#151)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 41.8 (#199)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1261 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1351 | 1335 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1238 |
| LMArena French | 1364 | — |
| LMArena German | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1356 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 4: 71.8 (#141)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 67.0 (#198)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1375 | 1268 |
| IFEval | 84% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 4: 33.6 (#254)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 38.7 (#188)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1275 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 4: 57.3 (#127)
- Granite 4.1 8b: 48.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Granite 4.1 8b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1291 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1269 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Granite 4.1 8b?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.6 to 36.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Granite 4.1 8b better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 29.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Granite 4.1 8b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.1 8b has 13.