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Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) is an open-weights language model from IBM, released September 2025. Its published size is 6.94B parameters (1B active per token) and a 131k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.

Catalogue identity notes

IBM Granite-4.0-H-Tiny (ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny @791e0d3, created 2025-09-16, apache-2.0, 6,939,037,248 params; card architecture table '# Parameters 7B', '# Active parameters 1B'): hybrid Mamba-2 MoE instruct model. Lab rows from the h-small card's 'H Tiny MoE' column; independent EuroEval and Vectara rows.

Model information sources

Release date ↗ · Weights licence ↗

HF safetensors metadata of ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny @791e0d3; active parameters from the maker card architecture table.

47.7±0.9#385 of 719 LLMsfrom 24 benchmark results across 3 sources

$ how it compares

The LLMs ranked either side of Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B), out of 828 with a score, then more from IBM.

#modelscorewhereRAMreleased
460Gemma 3n E4B Google48±1local~6.2GB2025-06
461Hermes 2 Theta Llama-3 70B Nous Research48±2local~47GB2024-06
462Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) IBM48±1local~5.6GB2025-09
463DeepSeek-Coder 7B Instruct v1.5 DeepSeek48±1local~5.9GB2024-01
464Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct Alibaba48±2local~35GB2024-06
more from IBM
192Granite 4.2 30B IBM63±1api $0.28/M +local~19GB2026-08
239Granite 4.2 8B IBM60±1api $0.11/M +local~6.6GB2026-08
276Granite 4.2 3B IBM57±1api $0.052/M +local~3.7GB2026-08

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$ what it's good at

agent tasks▄·▄········█ #3 of 4 * · 1.3% of its score · 1 test

Trails Granite 4.0 Micro 3B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BFCL v3 lab57.6% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▆▅▄▁ beats 86/170medium · avg 60%▇ 1.3%blunt · at its level
coding█···▄······▄ #2 of 4 · 33% of its score · 7 tests
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
HumanEval lab83.0% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▃▅▅█▃▂▁ beats 170/190very easy · avg 86%▇▇▇▇ 10%sharp
HumanEval+ lab76.0% ✎▁·▁▁▂▃▄▄█▅▄▃ beats 98/145easy · avg 81%▇▇▇ 8.6%sharp
MBPP lab80.0% ✎▁▁▁▄▅█▄▅▃▃▂▁ beats 75/81easy · avg 79%▇▇ 4.0%typical
BigCodeBench lab41.1% ✎▅····▃·█▃▅█▃ beats 11/12medium · avg 42%▇ 3.2%at its level
MultiPL-E lab55.8% ✎▃··▄·▅▅▇▄█▃▄ beats 10/31medium · avg 58%▇ 3.1%at its level
MBPP+ lab69.0% ✎▁··▁▁▃▄█▆▄▁▁ beats 80/120easy · avg 70%▇ 2.7%at its level
CRUXEval-O lab39.6% ✎▂▂██▅▂▁·▁·▁▁ beats 23/51medium · avg 48%▇ 1.8%blunt · at its level
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #235 of 393 * · 4.8% of its score · 2 tests

Beats Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6.5B), Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Flan-T5 XXL, LFM2.5 1.2B Instruct, Gemma 3 4B here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
IFEval instruction-level strict lab84.8% ✎▄▄····▄▄█▄·█ beats 4/8very easy · avg 88%▇ 2.5%typical
IFEval prompt-level strict lab78.1% ✎▁▁··▂··▂▇█▃▃ beats 7/26easy · avg 81%▇ 2.3%typical
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #237 of 398 · 24% of its score · 5 tests

Beats Command A (03-2025), GPT-4o (2024-11-20), GPT-4o (2024-05-13) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Tulu 2 DPO 70B, OpenThinker 7B, Olmo 3 7B Instruct here, though they rank lower overall.

testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
GSM8K lab84.7% ✎▂▂▂▅▅▆▅▇█▇▄▃ beats 101/146very easy · avg 87%▇▇▇ 7.0%sharp
DeepMind Mathematics lab49.9% ✎▅····▅·█▃▃·▅ beats 6/10medium · avg 55%▇▇ 5.5%at its level
Minerva MATH lab69.6% ✎▄·▂▂·██▆·▆▄▄ beats 18/21easy · avg 70%▇▇ 5.2%at its level
GSM-Symbolic lab81.1% ✎▃▃····▃·▅▅█▃ beats 7/10easy · avg 83%▇▇ 4.4%typical
MGSM, 5 languages (en, es, fr, ja, zh) lab45.4% ✎█·▄▄██···█·▄ beats 7/10medium · avg 46%▇ 1.8%at its level
other tests9 not in a task · 36% of its score
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
BIG-Bench Hard lab66.3% ✎▁▁▁▁▂▄▅▅█▃▄▁ beats 82/129easy · avg 76%▇▇▇ 7.5%sharp · at its level
GPQA (subset unspecified) lab32.6% ✎▂▁▂▂▄▃▆▃▅█▄▃ beats 29/104hard · avg 37%▇▇▇ 7.2%sharp
MMLU lab68.7% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▅█▃▆▃ beats 107/183easy · avg 74%▇▇ 6.0%at its level
MMLU-Pro lab44.9% ✎▁▁·▁▁▁▃▂▄▅█▁ beats 40/188medium · avg 52%▇▇ 4.9%at its level
INCLUDE lab53.1% ✎▂····▂▂▄▄▄█▄ beats 9/36medium · avg 58%▇▇ 4.4%at its level
MMMLU lab61.9% ✎▂▁▁▂▃▂▄▄▅██▃ beats 15/46medium · avg 63%▇ 3.7%at its level
EuroEval HellaSwag (English), test split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy70.4% ✎▃·▁▁▂▁▂▅█▇▄▁ beats 51/100medium · avg 68%▇ 1.3%at its level · noisy
EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy81.2% ✎▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█▄▃ beats 71/146easy · avg 83%▇ 0.9%at its level · noisy
1 more test
testresultvs the others in its rundifficultycountswhy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard, 2025 dataset (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate)92.7% ✎▁▁▂▃▄▄█▆▃▂▂▁ beats 41/140very easy · avg 94%▇ 0.5%blunt · maxed out · noisy

$ where to run it

llama.cpp · recommended

  1. Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.
    macOS / Linux
    curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh
    Windows
    irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex

    other ways to install ↗

  2. Run Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) · needs ~4.23 GB · from huggingface.co/ibm-granite
    chat in the terminal
    llama cli -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny-GGUF:Q4_K_M
  3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
    llama serve -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny-GGUF:Q4_K_M

LM Studio

version

  1. Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.

    download it (macOS / Windows / Linux) ↗

  2. Run Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) · needs ~4.23 GB · from huggingface.co/ibm-granite

    open in LM Studio ↗

  3. Or download it in the terminal
    lms get https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y
  4. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name

Ollama

  1. Install Ollama

    download it (macOS / Windows) ↗

    Linux
    curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  2. Run Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) · needs ~4.2 GB · from ollama.com
    chat in the terminal
    ollama run granite4:tiny-h

MLX (Mac)

version

  1. Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.
    with uv
    uv tool install mlx-lm
    or
    pip install mlx-lm
  2. Run Granite 4.0 H Tiny (7B-A1B) · needs ~3.9 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
    chat in the terminal
    mlx_lm.chat --model lmstudio-community/granite-4.0-h-tiny-MLX-4bit
  3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
    mlx_lm.server --model lmstudio-community/granite-4.0-h-tiny-MLX-4bit

Weights and documentation: huggingface.co/ibm-granite ↗

$ how the score was worked out · ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-sma… 97%, EuroEval leaderboards (result… 2%, Vectara hallucination leaderb… 1%

Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works

sourceresultsshare of the scorelicence
ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small model card · lab-reported21▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ 97%Apache-2.0
EuroEval leaderboards (results collection), English generative leaderboard2▇ 2%MIT
Vectara hallucination leaderboard (vectara/hallucination-leaderboard repository)1▇ 1%Apache-2.0
prior · pull toward the middle▇ 0%
weighted average= 47.7

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