Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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· Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Granite-4.0-H-1B finishes one point ahead overall, 43 to 42. 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.

Granite-4.0-H-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMNVIDIA
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A152 t/s
TTFTN/A1.90s
Context128K32K

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-1BNemotron 3 Nano 30B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.038%
BrowseComp43%
OSWorld-Verified39%
Coding
HumanEval74%49%
SWE-bench Verified26%
SWE-bench Pro27%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro38%
OfficeQA Pro54%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%72%
MuSR52%
LongBench v251%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
MMLU59.4%57%
GPQA29.9%56%
MMLU-Pro34.0%65%
SuperGPQA54%
HLE1%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
IFEval77.4%78%
MultilingualNemotron 3 Nano 30B wins
MGSM37.8%75%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics
AIME 202357%
AIME 202459%
AIME 202558%
HMMT Feb 202353%
HMMT Feb 202455%
HMMT Feb 202554%
BRUMO 202556%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 37.8% and 75%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.5 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Nemotron 3 Nano 30B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.8 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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