Granite-4.0-350M vs Llama 3.1 405B

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-4.0-350M· Llama 3.1 405B

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3.1 405B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Llama 3.1 405B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 53 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 3.1 405B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 80.1 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 16.2% to 84%.

Llama 3.1 405B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A29 t/s
TTFTN/A2.19s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MLlama 3.1 405B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.053%
BrowseComp58%
OSWorld-Verified52%
Coding
HumanEval38%62%
SWE-bench Verified46%
LiveCodeBench37%
SWE-bench Pro43%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro60%
OfficeQA Pro65%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%82%
MuSR66%
LongBench v268%
MRCRv265%
KnowledgeLlama 3.1 405B wins
MMLU36.2%70%
GPQA26.1%70%
MMLU-Pro14.4%71%
SuperGPQA68%
HLE7%
FrontierScience65%
SimpleQA68%
Instruction FollowingLlama 3.1 405B wins
IFEval61.6%86%
MultilingualLlama 3.1 405B wins
MGSM16.2%84%
MMLU-ProX78%
Mathematics
AIME 202370%
AIME 202472%
AIME 202571%
HMMT Feb 202366%
HMMT Feb 202468%
HMMT Feb 202567%
BRUMO 202569%
MATH-50082%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Llama 3.1 405B?

Llama 3.1 405B is ahead overall, 53 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 16.2% and 84%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Llama 3.1 405B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.3 versus 18.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-350M or Llama 3.1 405B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 61.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Llama 3.1 405B?

Llama 3.1 405B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.1 versus 16.2. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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