Granite-4.0-H-350M vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

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-350M· Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B

Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 24. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 79.7 against 14.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 14.7% to 81%.

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-H-350M 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. Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-H-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMNVIDIA
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K10M

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGranite-4.0-H-350MNemotron 3 Ultra 500B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.063%
BrowseComp69%
OSWorld-Verified58%
Coding
HumanEval39%66%
SWE-bench Verified42%
LiveCodeBench41%
SWE-bench Pro47%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro61%
OfficeQA Pro74%
Reasoning
BBH33.1%85%
MuSR69%
LongBench v281%
MRCRv285%
KnowledgeNemotron 3 Ultra 500B wins
MMLU35.0%74%
GPQA24.1%73%
MMLU-Pro12.1%73%
SuperGPQA71%
HLE15%
FrontierScience67%
SimpleQA71%
Instruction FollowingNemotron 3 Ultra 500B wins
IFEval55.4%84%
MultilingualNemotron 3 Ultra 500B wins
MGSM14.7%81%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202374%
AIME 202476%
AIME 202575%
HMMT Feb 202370%
HMMT Feb 202472%
HMMT Feb 202571%
BRUMO 202573%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B is ahead overall, 60 to 24. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 14.7% and 81%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 versus 16.4. 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-350M or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 84 versus 55.4. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B?

Nemotron 3 Ultra 500B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.7 versus 14.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

Weekly LLM Benchmark Digest

Get notified when new models drop, benchmark scores change, or the leaderboard shifts. One email per week.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime. We only store derived location metadata for consent routing.