Granite-4.0-1B vs Qwen3.5 397B

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· Qwen3.5 397B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen3.5 397B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 40. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 78.8 against 27.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 27.5% to 82%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAlibaba
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A96 t/s
TTFTN/A2.44s
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-1BQwen3.5 397B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.058%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified52%
Coding
HumanEval73%75%
SWE-bench Verified42%
LiveCodeBench39%
SWE-bench Pro42%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro56%
OfficeQA Pro68%
Reasoning
BBH59.7%82%
MuSR78%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeQwen3.5 397B wins
MMLU59.7%83%
GPQA29.7%82%
MMLU-Pro32.9%73%
SuperGPQA80%
HLE10%
FrontierScience71%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5 397B wins
IFEval78.5%82%
MultilingualQwen3.5 397B wins
MGSM27.5%82%
MMLU-ProX77%
Mathematics
AIME 202383%
AIME 202485%
AIME 202584%
HMMT Feb 202379%
HMMT Feb 202481%
HMMT Feb 202580%
BRUMO 202582%
MATH-50081%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B is ahead overall, 64 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 27.5% and 82%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61 versus 31.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-1B or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 82 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 Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 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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