Granite-4.0-350M vs Nova Pro

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· Nova Pro

Quick Verdict

Pick Nova Pro 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.

Nova Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 34 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nova Pro's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 60.4 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 16.2% to 61%.

Nova Pro gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAmazon
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A141 t/s
TTFTN/A0.81s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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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-4.0-350MNova Pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.031%
BrowseComp39%
OSWorld-Verified32%
Coding
HumanEval38%33%
SWE-bench Verified19%
LiveCodeBench14%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro37%
OfficeQA Pro46%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%
MuSR37%
LongBench v251%
KnowledgeNova Pro wins
MMLU36.2%41%
GPQA26.1%40%
MMLU-Pro14.4%53%
SuperGPQA38%
FrontierScience41%
SimpleQA39%
Instruction FollowingNova Pro wins
IFEval61.6%66%
MultilingualNova Pro wins
MGSM16.2%61%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
AIME 202341%
AIME 202443%
AIME 202542%
HMMT Feb 202337%
HMMT Feb 202439%
HMMT Feb 202538%
BRUMO 202540%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Nova Pro?

Nova Pro is ahead overall, 34 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 16.2% and 61%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.5 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 Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 66 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 Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 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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