Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
80
Winner · 3/8 categoriesGranite-4.0-1B
~40
0/8 categoriesClaude Sonnet 4.6· Granite-4.0-1B
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 80 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Sonnet 4.6's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 89.7 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 91% to 27.5%.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $3.00 input / $15.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Granite-4.0-1B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Sonnet 4.6 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-1B.
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| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Granite-4.0-1B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | — |
| BrowseComp | 77% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.5% | — |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | 93% | 73% |
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 54% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 64% | — |
| FLTEval | 23.7% | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | — |
| React Native Evals | 77.9% | — |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| OfficeQA Pro | 88% | — |
| Reasoning | ||
| MuSR | 93% | — |
| BBH | 88% | 59.7% |
| LongBench v2 | 83% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 79% | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 59% | — |
| KnowledgeClaude Sonnet 4.6 wins | ||
| GPQA | 89.9% | 29.7% |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 32.9% |
| HLE | 49% | — |
| FrontierScience | 85% | — |
| SimpleQA | 48.5% | — |
| MMLU | — | 59.7% |
| Instruction FollowingClaude Sonnet 4.6 wins | ||
| IFEval | 89.5% | 78.5% |
| MultilingualClaude Sonnet 4.6 wins | ||
| MGSM | 91% | 27.5% |
| MMLU-ProX | 89% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | 97.8% | — |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is ahead overall, 80 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 91% and 27.5%.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.5 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89.5 versus 78.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 89.7 versus 27.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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