Claude 3 Opus vs Granite-4.0-H-1B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Claude 3 Opus· Granite-4.0-H-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Claude 3 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 49 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 3 Opus's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 69.8 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 73% to 37.8%. Granite-4.0-H-1B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 3 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-H-1B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderAnthropicIBM
PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context200K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGranite-4.0-H-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp56%
OSWorld-Verified47%
Coding
HumanEval84.9%74%
SWE-bench Verified10%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73%
OfficeQA Pro67%
Reasoning
MuSR57%
BBH74%60.4%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeClaude 3 Opus wins
MMLU86.8%59.4%
GPQA61%29.9%
SuperGPQA59%
MMLU-Pro62%34.0%
HLE1%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA59%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval77%77.4%
MultilingualClaude 3 Opus wins
MGSM73%37.8%
MMLU-ProX68%
Mathematics
AIME 202361%
AIME 202463%
AIME 202562%
HMMT Feb 202357%
HMMT Feb 202459%
HMMT Feb 202558%
BRUMO 202560%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Claude 3 Opus is ahead overall, 49 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 73% and 37.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 46 versus 32.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 3 Opus or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 3 Opus or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Claude 3 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.8 versus 37.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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