1-bit Bonsai 1.7B vs GPT-4 Turbo

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 1.7B· GPT-4 Turbo

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-4 Turbo if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

GPT-4 Turbo is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 45 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-4 Turbo's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 54.9 against 20.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 20.7% to 60%.

GPT-4 Turbo gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A30 t/s
TTFTN/A2.84s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 1.7BGPT-4 Turbo
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.042%
BrowseComp54%
OSWorld-Verified41%
Coding
HumanEval52%
SWE-bench Verified5%
LiveCodeBench23%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro53%
OfficeQA Pro58%
ReasoningGPT-4 Turbo wins
MuSR45.1%56%
BBH75%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv262%
KnowledgeGPT-4 Turbo wins
GPQA20.7%60%
MMLU60%
SuperGPQA58%
MMLU-Pro51%
FrontierScience52%
SimpleQA58%
Instruction FollowingGPT-4 Turbo wins
IFEval63%80%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX65%
MathematicsGPT-4 Turbo wins
MATH-50034.4%71%
AIME 202360%
AIME 202462%
AIME 202561%
HMMT Feb 202356%
HMMT Feb 202458%
HMMT Feb 202557%
BRUMO 202559%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo is ahead overall, 45 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 20.7% and 60%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.9 versus 20.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 62.8 versus 34.4. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.4 versus 45.1. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 1.7B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 63. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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