Gemini 1.5 Pro 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

Gemini 1.5 Pro· Granite-4.0-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 1.5 Pro's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 69.5 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 76% to 27.5%. Granite-4.0-1B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-1B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleIBM
PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context2M128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemini 1.5 ProGranite-4.0-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.045%
BrowseComp64%
OSWorld-Verified45%
Coding
HumanEval56%73%
SWE-bench Verified5%
LiveCodeBench22%
SWE-bench Pro18%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro75%
OfficeQA Pro73%
Reasoning
MuSR60%
BBH74%59.7%
LongBench v270%
MRCRv273%
KnowledgeGemini 1.5 Pro wins
MMLU64%59.7%
GPQA56.8%29.7%
SuperGPQA62%
MMLU-Pro57%32.9%
HLE1%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA62%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-1B wins
IFEval77%78.5%
MultilingualGemini 1.5 Pro wins
MGSM76%27.5%
MMLU-ProX66%
Mathematics
AIME 202364%
AIME 202466%
AIME 202565%
HMMT Feb 202360%
HMMT Feb 202462%
HMMT Feb 202561%
BRUMO 202563%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro is ahead overall, 50 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 76% and 27.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Granite-4.0-1B?

Granite-4.0-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78.5 versus 77. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.5 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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