Model comparison

Gemma 1.1 7b IT vs Gemma 4 31B IT

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 1.1 7b IT Google

31.3

Rank #277 Confirmed

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 1.1 7b IT scores higher in 0 categories and Gemma 4 31B IT in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 60.5 to 30.4.

Side by side

Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Gemma 4 31B IT specifications
Gemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index31.343.5
Released—2026-04-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.09
Output $ / M tokens—$0.34
Results tracked1935

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 31.5 (#284), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Coding10841459
LMArena WebDev—1366
SciCode—43.4%
WeirdML—52.3%
ALE-Bench—925.5
HumanEval+35.4%—
MBPP+45%—

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 20.5 (#238), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Hard Prompts10711448
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—70.6%
CritPt—1.4%
Chess Puzzles—5%
Thematic Generalization—53%
DTBench—82.7%
LMCA—39.3%
Surface Evolver Bench—30.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—142.74

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.0 (#220), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Math11071465
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.3 (#247), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Expert10391465
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
SimpleQA Verified—10.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Vision—1277
LMArena Document—1425

Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 28.1 (#273), Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Non-English10521431
LMArena Chinese10611476
LMArena French10651435
LMArena Russian10461460
LMArena Spanish10491444
LMArena German1054—
LMArena Japanese971—
LMArena Korean988—

Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 54.0 (#283), Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Instruction Following10571433

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 32.1 (#272), Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Longer Query10561446

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 1.1 7b IT: 30.4 (#288), Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 1.1 7b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Text10941443
LMArena Creative Writing10601415
LMArena Multi-Turn10401452
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1368
EQ-Bench 4—1120

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT better than Gemma 4 31B IT?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 31.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 1.1 7b IT or Gemma 4 31B IT better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 31.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 1.1 7b IT and Gemma 4 31B IT share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 1.1 7b IT has 19 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.

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