# Claude Sonnet 5 vs Granite 4.0 Micro

> Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 98× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-granite-4-0-micro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 5 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 66.1 to 11.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.7% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.
- Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Granite 4.0 Micro has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 54.5 | 28.8 |
| Rank | 26 | 312 |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Input $/M | $2 | $0.017 |
| Output $/M | $10 | $0.11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 53.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 42.7% | — |
| CursorBench | 34.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1540 | — |
| SciCode | 53.6% | — |
| GSO | 37.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 68.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,463 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1194 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,378 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 18.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 35% | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 60.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 75.1% | — |
| CritPt | 16.9% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | — |
| DTBench | 92.5% | — |
| LMCA | 50% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 60% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.34 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 11.2 (#301)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.7% | 2.8% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 65.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 77% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1467 | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#299)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | 28.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 39.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1491 | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1275 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1466 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1475 | — |
| LMArena French | 1457 | — |
| LMArena German | 1448 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1452 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1436 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 70.0 (#164)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 84.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1453 | — |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1464 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24)
- Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#212)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Granite 4.0 Micro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1794 | — |
| WildBench | — | 67% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1454 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 98× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5 lists at $2 and $10.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.