# Granite-4.0-H-1B vs Qwen2.5-Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite-4.0-H-1B and Qwen2.5-Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-0-h-1b-vs-qwen2-5-max
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Granite-4.0-H-1B and Qwen2.5-Max share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Granite-4.0-H-1B has the larger published context window at 128K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | Unknown |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 28.94 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 7 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen2.5-Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 73% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 38.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: 30.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen2.5-Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 59.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: 19.6 (Supported · #177/181)
- Qwen2.5-Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 59.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 29.7% | 60.1% | Qwen2.5-Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 32.9% | 76.1% | Qwen2.5-Max |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen2.5-Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 27.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite-4.0-H-1B public-lane score: 28.8 (#120/128)
- Qwen2.5-Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite-4.0-H-1B | Qwen2.5-Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 78.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Granite-4.0-H-1B and Qwen2.5-Max?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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