# Granite-4.0-1B vs Llama 3.1 8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite-4.0-1B and Llama 3.1 8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-0-1b-vs-llama-3-1-8b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 3.1 8B 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

- Llama 3.1 8B leads overall 51 to 46.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MGSM in Multilingual, with scores of 37.8% and 68.9%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 74% | 72.6% | Granite-4.0-1B |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 60.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 59.4% | 73% | Llama 3.1 8B |
| GPQA | 29.9% | 30.4% | Llama 3.1 8B |
| MMLU-Pro | 34.0% | 48.3% | Llama 3.1 8B |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 37.8% | 68.9% | Llama 3.1 8B |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 77.4% | 80.4% | Llama 3.1 8B |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-1B | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite-4.0-1B or Llama 3.1 8B?

Llama 3.1 8B 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 Llama 3.1 8B cover on BenchLM?

Llama 3.1 8B currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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