Granite 4.0 H 1B
Analysis Summary
Granite 4.0 H 1B is IBM's smallest Granite 4.0 variant, a 1-billion-parameter model designed for constrained compute environments. Its benchmark scores reflect the hard ceiling of its size: reasoning, coding, and instruction-following all sit at the low end of the field, and its agentic capability is minimal.
For businesses, this model is not a fit for complex workflows, client-facing content, or autonomous agents. Its practical use cases are narrow: local inference on edge devices, simple classification, or lightweight text tasks where latency and compute cost are the primary constraints.
Teams with strict on-device or privacy requirements may find it useful as a starting point, but most business workloads will quickly outgrow its capability ceiling.
Assessed June 6, 2026
Editorial notes
Granite 4.0 H 1B is a compact 1B-parameter model from IBM with very limited reasoning and coding capability, suited only to lightweight on-device or edge inference tasks.
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Performance Profile
How Granite 4.0 H 1B compares
Granite 4.0 H 1B ranks #350 of 378 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #295 of 315 for coding, #179 of 289 for agentic tasks. Granite 4.0 H 1B is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
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Model Information
| Provider | IBM |
| Release Date | October 28, 2025 |
| Status | Active |
Frequently asked questions about Granite 4.0 H 1B
How much does Granite 4.0 H 1B cost?
Granite 4.0 H 1B is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Is Granite 4.0 H 1B good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Granite 4.0 H 1B ranks #295 of 315 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Granite 4.0 H 1B?
Granite 4.0 H 1B is developed by IBM and was released on October 28, 2025.
