# Gemma 7B vs Granite 4.0 H Small

> Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-7b-vs-ibm-granite-h-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 7B scores higher in 0 categories and Granite 4.0 H Small in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Granite 4.0 H Small leads 68.7 to 51.5.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | IBM |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 299 | 214 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 7B: 30.5 (#294)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 36.4 (#209)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1048 | 1249 |
| HumanEval+ | 28.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 43.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 7B: 19.9 (#249)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 24.4 (#163)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1042 | 1240 |
| Adversarial NLI | 48.7% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 55.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 111.99 | — |
| HellaSwag | 82.2% | — |
| PIQA | 81.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 79% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 7B: 31.2 (#228)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 31.4 (#223)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1066 | 1247 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.6% |
| GSM8K | 46.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 7B: 27.3 (#252)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 32.0 (#215)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1001 | 1251 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 56.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 38.3% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 78.3% | — |
| BoolQ | 83.2% | — |
| MMLU | 66.1% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 78.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 72.3% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 7B: 25.1 (#287)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 38.6 (#228)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 999 | 1216 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1035 | 1249 |
| LMArena Russian | 993 | 1201 |
| LMArena French | 1025 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1258 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 7B: 51.5 (#295)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 68.7 (#183)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1017 | 1222 |
| IFEval | — | 89% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 7B: 31.1 (#282)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 37.7 (#213)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1022 | 1242 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 7B: 27.1 (#302)
- Granite 4.0 H Small: 43.8 (#227)

| Benchmark | Gemma 7B | Granite 4.0 H Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1056 | 1241 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1024 | 1211 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 963 | 1242 |
| WildBench | — | 73.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 7B better than Granite 4.0 H Small?

Granite 4.0 H Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.5 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 7B or Granite 4.0 H Small better for coding?

Granite 4.0 H Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.4 versus 30.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 7B and Granite 4.0 H Small share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 7B has 27 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 H Small has 19.