Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Qwen2.5-72B

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· Qwen2.5-72B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 61 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen2.5-72B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 80.8 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 29.9% to 82%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMAlibaba
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-1BQwen2.5-72B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.056%
BrowseComp64%
OSWorld-Verified55%
Coding
HumanEval74%75%
SWE-bench Verified46%
LiveCodeBench40%
SWE-bench Pro47%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro64%
OfficeQA Pro70%
Reasoning
BBH60.4%81%
MuSR78%
MRCRv271%
KnowledgeQwen2.5-72B wins
MMLU59.4%83%
GPQA29.9%82%
MMLU-Pro34.0%75%
SuperGPQA80%
HLE11%
FrontierScience70%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction FollowingQwen2.5-72B wins
IFEval77.4%85%
MultilingualQwen2.5-72B wins
MGSM37.8%84%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202384%
AIME 202486%
AIME 202585%
HMMT Feb 202380%
HMMT Feb 202482%
HMMT Feb 202581%
BRUMO 202583%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Qwen2.5-72B?

Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 61 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 29.9% and 82%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Qwen2.5-72B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.5 versus 32.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Granite-4.0-H-1B or Qwen2.5-72B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 85 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 Qwen2.5-72B?

Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.8 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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