Is Granite-4.1-30b Overshadowed by Qwen3.6 & Gemma4 models?

I don't see any threads on this model. Is it because it's dense and/or without-reasoning? Anyone tried this for coding?

Capabilities
Summarization
Text classification
Text extraction
Question-answering
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Code related tasks
Function-calling tasks
Multilingual dialog use cases
Fill-In-the-Middle (FIM) code completions

Some people prefer dense in this model size range(Ex: 27B over 35B-A3B). Still no feedbacks from them here.

I know that some people love Granite models. Myself used granite-3.3-8b for simple compact stuffs last year. Their granite-4.0-h-small(30B) came with A9B which's not friendly for Poor GPU Club. Wish it was A3B as it's slower on my 8GB VRAM.

There are future Granite models in the works that will include reasoning. These models are intended for compact use-cases that don't require reasoning and do require strict token budgeting. Stay tuned for the next iteration! - IBM Granite org