Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Granite-4.0-H-1B
~43
0/8 categoriesQwen3.6 Plus
69
Winner · 3/8 categoriesGranite-4.0-H-1B· Qwen3.6 Plus
Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 84.7 against 37.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 29.9% to 90.4%.
Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-H-1B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Granite-4.0-H-1B.
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| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 61.6% |
| Claw-Eval | — | 58.7% |
| QwenClawBench | — | 57.2% |
| QwenWebBench | — | 1502 |
| TAU3-Bench | — | 70.7% |
| VITA-Bench | — | 44.3% |
| DeepPlanning | — | 41.5% |
| Toolathlon | — | 39.8% |
| MCP Atlas | — | 48.2% |
| MCP-Tasks | — | 74.1% |
| WideResearch | — | 74.3% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 62.5% |
| Coding | ||
| HumanEval | 74% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 78.8% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 56.6% |
| SWE Multilingual | — | 73.8% |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | — | 87.1% |
| NL2Repo | — | 37.9% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU | — | 86.0% |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 78.8% |
| RealWorldQA | — | 85.4% |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | — | 91.2% |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | — | 87.8% |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | — | 84.2% |
| MathVision | — | 88.0% |
| We-Math | — | 89.0% |
| DynaMath | — | 88.0% |
| MStar | — | 83.3% |
| SimpleVQA | — | 67.3% |
| ChatCVQA | — | 81.5% |
| MMLongBench-Doc | — | 62.0% |
| CC-OCR | — | 83.4% |
| AI2D_TEST | — | 94.4% |
| CountBench | — | 97.6% |
| RefCOCO (avg) | — | 93.5% |
| ODINW13 | — | 51.8% |
| ERQA | — | 65.7% |
| VideoMMMU | — | 84.0% |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | — | 86.7% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | — | 68.2% |
| Reasoning | ||
| BBH | 60.4% | — |
| AI-Needle | — | 68.3% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 62% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MMLU | 59.4% | — |
| GPQA | 29.9% | 90.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 34.0% | 88.5% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 71.6% |
| MMLU-Redux | — | 94.5% |
| C-Eval | — | 93.3% |
| HLE | — | 28.8% |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| IFEval | 77.4% | 94.3% |
| IFBench | — | 74.2% |
| MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins | ||
| MGSM | 37.8% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 84.7% |
| NOVA-63 | — | 57.9% |
| INCLUDE | — | 85.1% |
| PolyMath | — | 77.4% |
| VWT2k-lite | — | 84.3% |
| MAXIFE | — | 88.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME26 | — | 95.3% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 96.7% |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | — | 94.6% |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | — | 87.8% |
| MMAnswerBench | — | 83.8% |
Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 29.9% and 90.4%.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 32.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 77.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 37.8. Granite-4.0-H-1B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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