Granite-4.0-1B vs Moonshot v1

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· Moonshot v1

Quick Verdict

Pick Moonshot v1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Moonshot v1 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 43 versus 40. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Moonshot v1's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 69.8 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 27.5% to 73%. 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.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-1BMoonshot v1
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
BrowseComp49%
Coding
HumanEval73%45%
SWE-bench Verified34%
LiveCodeBench21%
SWE-bench Pro30%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro49%
OfficeQA Pro57%
Reasoning
BBH59.7%73%
MuSR49%
LongBench v258%
MRCRv256%
KnowledgeMoonshot v1 wins
MMLU59.7%53%
GPQA29.7%52%
MMLU-Pro32.9%64%
SuperGPQA50%
HLE5%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA51%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-1B wins
IFEval78.5%77%
MultilingualMoonshot v1 wins
MGSM27.5%73%
MMLU-ProX68%
Mathematics
AIME 202353%
AIME 202455%
AIME 202554%
HMMT Feb 202349%
HMMT Feb 202451%
HMMT Feb 202550%
BRUMO 202552%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 is ahead overall, 43 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 27.5% and 73%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 42.9 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 Moonshot v1?

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, Granite-4.0-1B or Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.8 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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