Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Nemotron-4 15B

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-4 15B

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron-4 15B only becomes the better choice if multilingual is the priority.

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 43 versus 40. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

Granite-4.0-H-1B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Nemotron-4 15B.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BNemotron-4 15B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp47%
OSWorld-Verified42%
Coding
HumanEval74%46%
SWE-bench Verified31%
LiveCodeBench22%
SWE-bench Pro30%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro46%
OfficeQA Pro54%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%73%
MuSR50%
LongBench v252%
MRCRv251%
KnowledgeNemotron-4 15B wins
MMLU59.4%54%
GPQA29.9%53%
MMLU-Pro34.0%
SuperGPQA51%
HLE5%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA52%
Instruction Following
IFEval77.4%
MultilingualNemotron-4 15B wins
MGSM37.8%75%
MMLU-ProX71%
Mathematics
AIME 202354%
AIME 202456%
AIME 202555%
HMMT Feb 202350%
HMMT Feb 202452%
HMMT Feb 202551%
BRUMO 202553%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 40. 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-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 37.7 versus 32.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Nemotron-4 15B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.4 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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