Granite-4.0-1B vs Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)

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· Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 55 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 74.4 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 32.9% to 84.4%.

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-1B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAlibaba
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

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-4.0-1BQwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.047%
BrowseComp48%
OSWorld-Verified43%
Coding
HumanEval73%32%
SWE-bench Verified16%
LiveCodeBench74.1%
SWE-bench Pro29%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro38%
OfficeQA Pro47%
Reasoning
BBH59.7%63%
MuSR36%
LongBench v258%
MRCRv258%
KnowledgeQwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) wins
MMLU59.7%40%
GPQA29.7%81.1%
MMLU-Pro32.9%84.4%
SuperGPQA64.9%
HLE6%
FrontierScience42%
SimpleQA38%
Instruction FollowingQwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) wins
IFEval78.5%87.8%
MultilingualQwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) wins
MGSM27.5%62%
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202340%
AIME 202442%
AIME 202592.3%
HMMT Feb 202336%
HMMT Feb 202438%
HMMT Feb 202537%
BRUMO 202539%
MATH-50060%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)?

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 55 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 32.9% and 84.4%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)?

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 50 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 Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)?

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 87.8 versus 78.5. 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 Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning)?

Qwen3 235B 2507 (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.4 versus 27.5. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.