Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Grok 3 [Beta]

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-H-1B· Grok 3 [Beta]

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 3 [Beta] if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Grok 3 [Beta] has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 46 versus 43. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Grok 3 [Beta]'s sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 58.7 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 34.0% to 79.9%. Granite-4.0-H-1B does hit back in instruction following, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMxAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BGrok 3 [Beta]
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.032%
BrowseComp41%
OSWorld-Verified36%
Coding
HumanEval74%34%
SWE-bench Verified19%
LiveCodeBench57%
SWE-bench Pro21%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro40%
OfficeQA Pro47%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%62%
MuSR38%
LongBench v253%
MRCRv252%
KnowledgeGrok 3 [Beta] wins
MMLU59.4%42%
GPQA29.9%75.4%
MMLU-Pro34.0%79.9%
SuperGPQA39%
HLE3%
FrontierScience40%
SimpleQA43.6%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval77.4%67%
MultilingualGrok 3 [Beta] wins
MGSM37.8%60%
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics
AIME 202342%
AIME 202452.2%
AIME 202543%
HMMT Feb 202338%
HMMT Feb 202440%
HMMT Feb 202539%
BRUMO 202541%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Grok 3 [Beta] is ahead overall, 46 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 34.0% and 79.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.9 versus 32.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Grok 3 [Beta]?

Grok 3 [Beta] has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.7 versus 37.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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