Granite-4.0-1B vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B

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· Qwen2.5-VL-32B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-VL-32B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Qwen2.5-VL-32B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-VL-32B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 60.8 against 31.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 32.9% to 68.8%.

Granite-4.0-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Qwen2.5-VL-32B.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

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-4.0-1BQwen2.5-VL-32B
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
HumanEval73%91.5%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro49.5%
Reasoning
BBH59.7%
KnowledgeQwen2.5-VL-32B wins
MMLU59.7%
GPQA29.7%46%
MMLU-Pro32.9%68.8%
Instruction Following
IFEval78.5%
Multilingual
MGSM27.5%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B is ahead overall, 50 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 32.9% and 68.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen2.5-VL-32B?

Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.8 versus 31.7. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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