DBRX Instruct 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

DBRX Instruct· Granite-4.0-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick DBRX Instruct if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

DBRX Instruct finishes one point ahead overall, 41 to 40. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

DBRX Instruct's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 52 against 31.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 73.7% to 59.7%.

Granite-4.0-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDBRX InstructGranite-4.0-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.041%
BrowseComp31%
OSWorld-Verified29%
Coding
HumanEval70.1%73%
SWE-bench Pro48%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro36%
OfficeQA Pro35%
Reasoning
LongBench v236%
MRCRv237%
BBH59.7%
KnowledgeDBRX Instruct wins
MMLU73.7%59.7%
FrontierScience52%
GPQA29.7%
MMLU-Pro32.9%
Instruction Following
IFEval78.5%
MultilingualDBRX Instruct wins
MMLU-ProX46%
MGSM27.5%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, DBRX Instruct or Granite-4.0-1B?

DBRX Instruct is ahead overall, 41 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 73.7% and 59.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DBRX Instruct or Granite-4.0-1B?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 31.7. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DBRX Instruct or Granite-4.0-1B?

DBRX Instruct has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 46 versus 27.5. Granite-4.0-1B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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