Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Llama 4 Maverick

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 4 Maverick

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Maverick only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Granite-4.0-H-1B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Granite-4.0-H-1B's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 77.4 against 68. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 74% to 38%. Llama 4 Maverick does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-H-1B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A121 t/s
TTFTN/A0.95s
Context128K1M

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-H-1BLlama 4 Maverick
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp51%
OSWorld-Verified38%
Coding
HumanEval74%38%
SWE-bench Verified13%
LiveCodeBench15%
SWE-bench Pro17%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro59%
OfficeQA Pro54%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%63%
MuSR42%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeLlama 4 Maverick wins
MMLU59.4%46%
GPQA29.9%45%
MMLU-Pro34.0%53%
SuperGPQA43%
HLE4%
FrontierScience45%
SimpleQA44%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval77.4%68%
MultilingualLlama 4 Maverick wins
MGSM37.8%63%
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics
AIME 202346%
AIME 202448%
AIME 202547%
HMMT Feb 202342%
HMMT Feb 202444%
HMMT Feb 202543%
BRUMO 202545%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74% and 38%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 37 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 Llama 4 Maverick?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 68. 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 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.8 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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