Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

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· Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Granite-4.0-H-1B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 36. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Granite-4.0-H-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 64K for Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMistral
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K64K

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-1BMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.035%
BrowseComp32%
OSWorld-Verified28%
Coding
HumanEval74%54.8%
SWE-bench Pro40%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro35%
OfficeQA Pro36%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%
LongBench v239%
MRCRv238%
KnowledgeMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 wins
MMLU59.4%77.8%
GPQA29.9%
MMLU-Pro34.0%
FrontierScience53%
Instruction Following
IFEval77.4%
MultilingualMixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 wins
MGSM37.8%
MMLU-ProX42%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74% and 54.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53 versus 32.6. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1?

Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 42 versus 37.8. Granite-4.0-H-1B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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