Granite-4.0-350M vs Nemotron-4 15B

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· Nemotron-4 15B

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron-4 15B 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.

Nemotron-4 15B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 40 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron-4 15B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 72.4 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 16.2% to 75%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMNVIDIA
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MNemotron-4 15B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp47%
OSWorld-Verified42%
Coding
HumanEval38%46%
SWE-bench Verified31%
LiveCodeBench22%
SWE-bench Pro30%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro46%
OfficeQA Pro54%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%73%
MuSR50%
LongBench v252%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeNemotron-4 15B wins
MMLU36.2%54%
GPQA26.1%53%
MMLU-Pro14.4%
SuperGPQA51%
HLE5%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA52%
Instruction Following
IFEval61.6%
MultilingualNemotron-4 15B wins
MGSM16.2%75%
MMLU-ProX71%
Mathematics
AIME 202354%
AIME 202456%
AIME 202555%
HMMT Feb 202350%
HMMT Feb 202452%
HMMT Feb 202551%
BRUMO 202553%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B is ahead overall, 40 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 16.2% and 75%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 37.7 versus 18.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.4 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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