Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Phi-4

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· Phi-4

Quick Verdict

Pick Granite-4.0-H-1B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 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 16K for Phi-4.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMicrosoft
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A35 t/s
TTFTN/A2.02s
Context128K16K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BPhi-4
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp35%
OSWorld-Verified34%
Coding
HumanEval74%82.6%
SWE-bench Pro55%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro54%
OfficeQA Pro38%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%
LongBench v230%
MRCRv233%
KnowledgePhi-4 wins
MMLU59.4%84.8%
GPQA29.9%56.1%
MMLU-Pro34.0%
FrontierScience52%
Instruction Following
IFEval77.4%
MultilingualPhi-4 wins
MGSM37.8%80.6%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
MATH-50094.6%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

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

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 80.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.6 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 Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.2 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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