# Granite-4.0-1B vs Grok 2

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite-4.0-1B and Grok 2 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-0-1b-vs-grok-2
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Grok 2 leads overall 65 to 46.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro in Knowledge, with scores of 34.0% and 75.5%.
- Granite-4.0-1B also has the larger context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | xAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | Unknown |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 74% | 88.4% | Grok 2 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 60.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 66.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 59.4% | 87.5% | Grok 2 |
| GPQA | 29.9% | 56% | Grok 2 |
| MMLU-Pro | 34.0% | 75.5% | Grok 2 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 37.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Grok 2 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite-4.0-1B or Grok 2?

Grok 2 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Granite-4.0-1B cover on BenchLM?

Granite-4.0-1B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Grok 2 cover on BenchLM?

Grok 2 currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Grok 2 vs Granite-4.0-H-1B](/compare/granite-4-0-h-1b-vs-grok-2)
- [Granite-4.0-1B vs Grok 2 mini](/compare/granite-4-0-1b-vs-grok-2-mini)
- [Grok 2 vs Grok 2 mini](/compare/grok-2-vs-grok-2-mini)

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- [Granite-4.0-1B profile](/models/granite-4-0-1b)
- [Grok 2 profile](/models/grok-2)
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