Granite-4.0-350M vs Qwen3.5 397B (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-4.0-350M· Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 27. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 87.8 against 16.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 16.2% to 91%.

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-350M 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. Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAlibaba
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-350MQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp78%
OSWorld-Verified70%
Coding
HumanEval38%83%
SWE-bench Verified60%
LiveCodeBench60%
SWE-bench Pro65%
SWE-Rebench59.9%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro64%
OfficeQA Pro79%
Reasoning
BBH33.3%91%
MuSR85%
LongBench v280%
MRCRv282%
KnowledgeQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
MMLU36.2%91%
GPQA26.1%89%
MMLU-Pro14.4%81%
SuperGPQA87%
HLE29%
FrontierScience81%
SimpleQA87%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
IFEval61.6%89%
MultilingualQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins
MGSM16.2%91%
MMLU-ProX86%
Mathematics
AIME 202393%
AIME 202495%
AIME 202594%
HMMT Feb 202389%
HMMT Feb 202491%
HMMT Feb 202590%
BRUMO 202592%
MATH-50093%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-350M or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 77 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 16.2% and 91%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-350M or Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 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 Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 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 Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)?

Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87.8 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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