Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Llama 3 70B

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· Llama 3 70B

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3 70B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if instruction following is the priority.

Llama 3 70B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 45 versus 43. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Llama 3 70B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 67.5 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 37.8% to 72%. 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

ProviderIBMMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BLlama 3 70B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
OSWorld-Verified41%
Coding
HumanEval74%50%
SWE-bench Verified9%
LiveCodeBench19%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro50%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%74%
MuSR54%
LongBench v261%
MRCRv261%
KnowledgeLlama 3 70B wins
MMLU59.4%58%
GPQA29.9%58%
MMLU-Pro34.0%55%
SuperGPQA56%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA56%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval77.4%77%
MultilingualLlama 3 70B wins
MGSM37.8%72%
MMLU-ProX65%
Mathematics
AIME 202358%
AIME 202460%
AIME 202559%
HMMT Feb 202354%
HMMT Feb 202456%
HMMT Feb 202555%
BRUMO 202557%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Llama 3 70B?

Llama 3 70B is ahead overall, 45 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 37.8% and 72%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Llama 3 70B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.6 versus 32.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Llama 3 70B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 77. 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 Llama 3 70B?

Llama 3 70B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.5 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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