Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Nova Pro

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· Nova Pro

Quick Verdict

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

Granite-4.0-H-1B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 34. 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 66. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 74% to 33%. Nova Pro does hit back in multilingual, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAmazon
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A141 t/s
TTFTN/A0.81s
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BNova Pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.031%
BrowseComp39%
OSWorld-Verified32%
Coding
HumanEval74%33%
SWE-bench Verified19%
LiveCodeBench14%
SWE-bench Pro20%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro37%
OfficeQA Pro46%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%
MuSR37%
LongBench v251%
KnowledgeNova Pro wins
MMLU59.4%41%
GPQA29.9%40%
MMLU-Pro34.0%53%
SuperGPQA38%
FrontierScience41%
SimpleQA39%
Instruction FollowingGranite-4.0-H-1B wins
IFEval77.4%66%
MultilingualNova Pro wins
MGSM37.8%61%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
AIME 202341%
AIME 202443%
AIME 202542%
HMMT Feb 202337%
HMMT Feb 202439%
HMMT Feb 202538%
BRUMO 202540%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nova Pro?

Granite-4.0-H-1B is ahead overall, 43 to 34. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 74% and 33%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.5 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 Nova Pro?

Granite-4.0-H-1B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 77.4 versus 66. 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 Nova Pro?

Nova Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.4 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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