Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think 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 3 Pro Deep Think· Granite-4.0-1B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think 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.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think 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.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 87.4 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 97% to 29.7%.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think 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. Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think 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 3 Pro Deep ThinkGranite-4.0-1B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp87%
OSWorld-Verified73%
Coding
HumanEval91%73%
SWE-bench Verified58%
LiveCodeBench58%
SWE-bench Pro63%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro95%
OfficeQA Pro95%
Reasoning
MuSR93%
BBH95%59.7%
LongBench v294%
MRCRv296%
ARC-AGI-245.1%
KnowledgeGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
MMLU99%59.7%
GPQA97%29.7%
SuperGPQA95%
MMLU-Pro81%32.9%
HLE32%
FrontierScience88%
SimpleQA95%
Instruction FollowingGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
IFEval89%78.5%
MultilingualGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
MGSM92%27.5%
MMLU-ProX85%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50092%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 80 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 97% and 29.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.4 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 78.5. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Granite-4.0-1B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.4 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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