DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) 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

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)· Granite-4.0-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 68 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)'s sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 80.8 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 84% to 27.5%.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-1B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)Granite-4.0-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.071%
BrowseComp70%
OSWorld-Verified67%
Coding
HumanEval79%73%
SWE-bench Verified48%
LiveCodeBench45%
SWE-bench Pro58%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro66%
OfficeQA Pro77%
Reasoning
MuSR81%
BBH86%59.7%
LongBench v278%
MRCRv278%
ARC-AGI-24%
KnowledgeDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
MMLU87%59.7%
GPQA85%29.7%
SuperGPQA83%
MMLU-Pro73%32.9%
HLE22%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA83%
Instruction FollowingDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
IFEval85%78.5%
MultilingualDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
MGSM84%27.5%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202383%
HMMT Feb 202485%
HMMT Feb 202584%
BRUMO 202586%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Granite-4.0-1B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is ahead overall, 68 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 84% and 27.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Granite-4.0-1B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.9 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Granite-4.0-1B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 versus 78.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Granite-4.0-1B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 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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