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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads the LLM Stats Score 19.3 to -5.2.

Anthropic · IBM · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads the overall LLM Stats Score 19.3 to -5.2, ranking #192 overall.

In the 5 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet wins 5; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3.5 Sonnet

  • overall performance matters — it scores 19.3 and ranks #192 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 5 of 5 exact shared results

Choose IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped May 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
IBM
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
19.3
#192
-5.2
#341
Reasoning
20.3
#175
-5.3
#331
Coding
11.7
#142
3.0
#207
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
5 of 5
0 of 5
Input price
$3.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
Math
23.4#124
-5.4#307
Finance
23.6#65
-3.3#196
Legal
23.6#54
-3.3#182
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

19 reported for Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 12 for IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

5 shared

Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms in 5 benchmarks (BIG-Bench Hard, DROP, GSM8k, HumanEval, MMLU), while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Tue Sep 01 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
IBM
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Sep 01 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs, whereas IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview does not.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Text
Images
Audio
Video

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is licensed under a proprietary license, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Proprietary

Closed source

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released on 2024-10-22, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview was released on 2025-05-02.

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is 6 months newer than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Oct 22, 2024

1.9 years ago

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

May 2, 2025

1.3 years ago

6mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Sonnet and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
✓ Preferred
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads the LLM Stats Score 19.3 to -5.2. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is made by Anthropic and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is made by IBM. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3.5 Sonnet compare to IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores GSM8k: 96.4%, DocVQA: 95.2%, AI2D: 94.7%, HumanEval: 93.7%, BIG-Bench Hard: 93.1%. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview scores AttaQ: 86.1%, HumanEval: 82.4%, HumanEval+: 78.3%, GSM8k: 70.1%, IFEval: 63.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports 200K tokens and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3.5 Sonnet and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (19.3 vs -5.2), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is developed by Anthropic and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is developed by IBM.

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