Granite-4.0-1B vs Llama 4 Scout

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Granite-4.0-1B· Llama 4 Scout

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Scout only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you need the larger 10M context window.

Granite-4.0-1B finishes one point ahead overall, 40 to 39. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Granite-4.0-1B's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 78.5 against 68. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 27.5% to 63%. Llama 4 Scout does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-1B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A128 t/s
TTFTN/A0.70s
Context128K10M

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGranite-4.0-1BLlama 4 Scout
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
BrowseComp48%
OSWorld-Verified37%
Coding
HumanEval73%39%
SWE-bench Verified12%
LiveCodeBench11%
SWE-bench Pro15%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro60%
OfficeQA Pro55%
Reasoning
BBH59.7%60%
MuSR43%
LongBench v264%
MRCRv266%
KnowledgeLlama 4 Scout wins
MMLU59.7%47%
GPQA29.7%46%
MMLU-Pro32.9%51%
SuperGPQA44%
HLE2%
FrontierScience44%
SimpleQA45%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-1B wins
IFEval78.5%68%
MultilingualLlama 4 Scout wins
MGSM27.5%63%
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics
AIME 202347%
AIME 202449%
AIME 202548%
HMMT Feb 202343%
HMMT Feb 202445%
HMMT Feb 202544%
BRUMO 202546%
MATH-50057%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Llama 4 Scout?

Granite-4.0-1B is ahead overall, 40 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 27.5% and 63%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.3 versus 31.7. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-1B or Llama 4 Scout?

Granite-4.0-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78.5 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.8 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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