Granite-4.0-H-350M 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-350M· Phi-4

Quick Verdict

Pick Phi-4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-350M only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 32K context window.

Phi-4 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 40 to 24. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Phi-4's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 67.2 against 14.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MGSM, 14.7% to 80.6%.

Granite-4.0-H-350M gives you the larger context window at 32K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderIBMMicrosoft
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A35 t/s
TTFTN/A2.02s
Context32K16K

Decision framing

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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-350MPhi-4
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.044%
BrowseComp35%
OSWorld-Verified34%
Coding
HumanEval39%82.6%
SWE-bench Pro55%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro54%
OfficeQA Pro38%
Reasoning
BBH33.1%
LongBench v230%
MRCRv233%
KnowledgePhi-4 wins
MMLU35.0%84.8%
GPQA24.1%56.1%
MMLU-Pro12.1%
FrontierScience52%
Instruction Following
IFEval55.4%
MultilingualPhi-4 wins
MGSM14.7%80.6%
MMLU-ProX60%
Mathematics
MATH-50094.6%
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Which is better, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Phi-4?

Phi-4 is ahead overall, 40 to 24. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MGSM, where the scores are 14.7% and 80.6%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 53.6 versus 16.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Granite-4.0-H-350M or Phi-4?

Phi-4 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 67.2 versus 14.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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