Claude 4.1 Opus vs Granite-4.0-1B

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 4.1 Opus· Granite-4.0-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4.1 Opus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Claude 4.1 Opus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4.1 Opus's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 81.8 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 85% to 27.5%.

Claude 4.1 Opus gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-1B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderAnthropicIBM
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed29 t/sN/A
TTFT1.66sN/A
Context200K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 4.1 OpusGranite-4.0-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.043.3%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified57%
Coding
HumanEval68%73%
SWE-bench Verified74.5%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro47%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro82%
OfficeQA Pro79%
Reasoning
MuSR72%
BBH81%59.7%
LongBench v271%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeClaude 4.1 Opus wins
MMLU76%59.7%
GPQA76%29.7%
SuperGPQA74%
HLE11%
FrontierScience68%
SimpleQA74%
MMLU-Pro32.9%
Instruction FollowingClaude 4.1 Opus wins
IFEval83%78.5%
MultilingualClaude 4.1 Opus wins
MGSM85%27.5%
MMLU-ProX80%
Mathematics
AIME 202376%
AIME 202478%
AIME 202577%
HMMT Feb 202372%
HMMT Feb 202474%
HMMT Feb 202573%
BRUMO 202575%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Claude 4.1 Opus or Granite-4.0-1B?

Claude 4.1 Opus is ahead overall, 62 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 85% and 27.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Granite-4.0-1B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.3 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 4.1 Opus or Granite-4.0-1B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 78.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 4.1 Opus or Granite-4.0-1B?

Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.8 versus 27.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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