Claude 4 Sonnet vs Granite-4.0-350M

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 Sonnet· Granite-4.0-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 4 Sonnet if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Claude 4 Sonnet is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude 4 Sonnet's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 82.1 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 84% to 16.2%.

Claude 4 Sonnet gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderAnthropicIBM
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed40 t/sN/A
TTFT1.33sN/A
Context200K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkClaude 4 SonnetGranite-4.0-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.056%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified57%
Coding
HumanEval65%38%
SWE-bench Verified72.7%
LiveCodeBench36%
SWE-bench Pro48%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro81%
OfficeQA Pro78%
Reasoning
MuSR69%
BBH82%33.3%
LongBench v271%
MRCRv272%
KnowledgeClaude 4 Sonnet wins
MMLU86.5%36.2%
GPQA73%26.1%
SuperGPQA71%
MMLU-Pro75%14.4%
HLE12%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA71%
Instruction FollowingClaude 4 Sonnet wins
IFEval83%61.6%
MultilingualClaude 4 Sonnet wins
MGSM84%16.2%
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202373%
AIME 202475%
AIME 202574%
HMMT Feb 202369%
HMMT Feb 202471%
HMMT Feb 202570%
BRUMO 202572%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Claude 4 Sonnet or Granite-4.0-350M?

Claude 4 Sonnet is ahead overall, 62 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 84% and 16.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Granite-4.0-350M?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.8 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Claude 4 Sonnet or Granite-4.0-350M?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 83 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Claude 4 Sonnet or Granite-4.0-350M?

Claude 4 Sonnet has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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