# Granite-4.0-H-1B vs o4-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite-4.0-H-1B and o4-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-0-h-1b-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: November 12, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-1B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- o4-mini leads overall 63 to 40.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 28.8 for Granite-4.0-H-1B and 83.9 for o4-mini.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MGSM in Multilingual, with scores of 27.5% and 93.7%.
- Granite-4.0-H-1B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- o4-mini also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 200K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | $1.10 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 73% | 97.3% | o4-mini |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 59.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DROP | Coming soon | 77.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 59.7% | 90% | o4-mini |
| GPQA | 29.7% | 77.6% | o4-mini |
| MMLU-Pro | 32.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 20.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 27.5% | 93.7% | o4-mini |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: 28.8 (#145/157)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 83.9 (#56/157)

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 78.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Granite-4.0-H-1B or o4-mini?

o4-mini is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Granite-4.0-H-1B and o4-mini?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 28.8 for Granite-4.0-H-1B and 83.9 for o4-mini.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does o4-mini cover on BenchLM?

o4-mini currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [o4-mini vs Granite-4.0-1B](/compare/granite-4-0-1b-vs-o4-mini)
- [Granite-4.0-H-1B vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/granite-4-0-h-1b-vs-o4-mini-high)
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