Granite-4.0-1B vs Mistral 7B v0.3

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· Mistral 7B v0.3

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mistral 7B v0.3 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Granite-4.0-1B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 40 to 29. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Granite-4.0-1B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 31.7 against 31.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 73% to 30.5%.

Granite-4.0-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 7B v0.3.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMistral
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K32K

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-4.0-1BMistral 7B v0.3
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
HumanEval73%30.5%
Multimodal & Grounded
Coming soon
Reasoning
BBH59.7%
KnowledgeGranite-4.0-1B wins
MMLU59.7%60.1%
GPQA29.7%
MMLU-Pro32.9%
FrontierScience34%
SimpleQA28%
Instruction Following
IFEval78.5%
Multilingual
MGSM27.5%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Granite-4.0-1B is ahead overall, 40 to 29. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 73% and 30.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Mistral 7B v0.3?

Granite-4.0-1B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 31.7 versus 31.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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