Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Mistral 8x7B

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· Mistral 8x7B

Quick Verdict

Pick Mistral 8x7B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 128K context window.

Mistral 8x7B finishes one point ahead overall, 44 to 43. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Mistral 8x7B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 72.1 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 74% to 32.3%.

Granite-4.0-H-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Mistral 8x7B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMistral
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BMistral 8x7B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp47%
OSWorld-Verified38%
Coding
HumanEval74%32.3%
SWE-bench Verified28%
LiveCodeBench23%
SWE-bench Pro28%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro42%
OfficeQA Pro56%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%67.1%
MuSR61%
LongBench v257%
MRCRv253%
KnowledgeMistral 8x7B wins
MMLU59.4%71.3%
GPQA29.9%64%
MMLU-Pro34.0%65%
SuperGPQA62%
HLE8%
FrontierScience56%
SimpleQA63%
Instruction FollowingMistral 8x7B wins
IFEval77.4%78%
MultilingualMistral 8x7B wins
MGSM37.8%74%
MMLU-ProX71%
Mathematics
AIME 202365%
AIME 202467%
AIME 202566%
HMMT Feb 202361%
HMMT Feb 202463%
HMMT Feb 202562%
BRUMO 202564%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B is ahead overall, 44 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74% and 32.3%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 49.5 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 78 versus 77.4. 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 Mistral 8x7B?

Mistral 8x7B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.1 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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