GPT-4o vs Granite-4.0-350M

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

GPT-4o· Granite-4.0-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-4o if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

GPT-4o is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 51 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-4o's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 75.5 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 82% to 16.2%.

GPT-4o is also the more expensive model on tokens at $2.50 input / $10.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Granite-4.0-350M. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. GPT-4o gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderOpenAIIBM
Price$2.50 / $10.00Free*
Speed131 t/sN/A
TTFT0.81sN/A
Context128K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGPT-4oGranite-4.0-350M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.049%
BrowseComp59%
OSWorld-Verified48%
Coding
HumanEval58%38%
SWE-bench Verified20%
LiveCodeBench38%
SWE-bench Pro29%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro74%
OfficeQA Pro70%
Reasoning
MuSR62%
BBH82%33.3%
LongBench v262%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeGPT-4o wins
MMLU66%36.2%
GPQA66%26.1%
SuperGPQA64%
MMLU-Pro64%14.4%
HLE1%
FrontierScience58%
SimpleQA64%
Instruction FollowingGPT-4o wins
IFEval82%61.6%
MultilingualGPT-4o wins
MGSM82%16.2%
MMLU-ProX72%
Mathematics
AIME 202366%
AIME 202468%
AIME 202567%
HMMT Feb 202362%
HMMT Feb 202464%
HMMT Feb 202563%
BRUMO 202565%
MATH-50080%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, GPT-4o or Granite-4.0-350M?

GPT-4o is ahead overall, 51 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 82% and 16.2%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-4o or Granite-4.0-350M?

GPT-4o has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.7 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, GPT-4o or Granite-4.0-350M?

GPT-4o has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-4o or Granite-4.0-350M?

GPT-4o has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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