DeepSeek V3.1 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

DeepSeek V3.1· Granite-4.0-H-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3.1 only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 43 versus 40. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Granite-4.0-H-1B's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 77.4 against 67. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 25% to 74%. DeepSeek V3.1 does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderDeepSeekIBM
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.1Granite-4.0-H-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.029%
BrowseComp39%
OSWorld-Verified33%
Coding
HumanEval25%74%
SWE-bench Verified13%
LiveCodeBench15%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro35%
OfficeQA Pro45%
Reasoning
MuSR29%
BBH61%60.4%
MRCRv248%
KnowledgeGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
MMLU33%59.4%
GPQA32%29.9%
SuperGPQA30%
MMLU-Pro53%34.0%
HLE2%
FrontierScience37%
SimpleQA31%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval67%77.4%
MultilingualDeepSeek V3.1 wins
MGSM64%37.8%
MMLU-ProX59%
Mathematics
AIME 202333%
AIME 202435%
AIME 202534%
HMMT Feb 202329%
HMMT Feb 202431%
HMMT Feb 202530%
BRUMO 202532%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.1 or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 25% and 74%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.1 or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 32.6 versus 30.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.1 or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek V3.1 or Granite-4.0-H-1B?

DeepSeek V3.1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.8 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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