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Granite-4.0-H-Small

AI model Released

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Granite-4.0-H-Small 1241.3 Granite-4.0-H-Small · 95% interval 1232.9–1249.7 · 5,630 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,249.28 rating

Confidence interval: 1,217.29 – 1,281.28

344 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,248.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,231.69 – 1,265.76

1286 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,209.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.66 – 1,232.89

707 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,266.52 rating

Confidence interval: 1,254.19 – 1,278.84

2482 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,154.19 rating

Confidence interval: 1,141.40 – 1,166.99

4162 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,250.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,216.56 – 1,284.82

316 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,240.37 rating

Confidence interval: 1,229.08 – 1,251.66

3003 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,266.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,249.93 – 1,282.95

1378 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,212.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,192.82 – 1,231.70

1052 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,212.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.19 – 1,231.89

992 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,225.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,190.31 – 1,261.28

311 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,252.08 rating

Confidence interval: 1,230.76 – 1,273.40

885 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,275.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,241.17 – 1,310.69

288 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,218.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,177.92 – 1,259.33

259 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,252.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,239.36 – 1,266.18

2138 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,226.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,209.04 – 1,244.39

1204 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,221.91 rating

Confidence interval: 1,206.74 – 1,237.07

1607 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,241.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,224.75 – 1,258.60

1311 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,252.24 rating

Confidence interval: 1,220.52 – 1,283.97

344 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,242.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,222.49 – 1,262.88

945 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,216.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.92 – 1,227.27

3148 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,241.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,232.85 – 1,249.72

5630 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,168.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,122.81 – 1,213.30

230 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,200.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,171.54 – 1,229.05

425 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Granite-4.0-H-Small

1,258.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.36 – 1,304.31

192 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Granite-4.0-H-Small
Evaluation type
human preference

Run it locally

Inference · memory estimate

Granite-4.0-H-Small

60.0 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 32.21 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Granite-4.0-H-Small

Capabilities

Context window
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
131,072 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Checkpoint tensor payload
59.99 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text

Processing & platform

Architecture
granitemoehybrid