# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Granite 4.0 H Small

> Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#214); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-ibm-granite-h-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 40.4 to 36.4.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 40.3 | 36.5 |
| Rank | — | 214 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 40.4 (#139)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1249 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1240 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.77 | — |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | — |
| PIQA | 83.9% | — |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1247 |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | — | 56.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 38.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1251 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | — |
| MMLU | 78.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 80% | — |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1216 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1249 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1201 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1258 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 89% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1222 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1242 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1241 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1211 |
| WildBench | — | 73.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1242 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Granite 4.0 H Small has enough public results to be ranked (#214); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 36.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.