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Model comparison

Gemma 3n E4b IT vs Gemma 4 31B IT

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3n E4b 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 multilingual, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 53.8 to 43.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT and 63.5% for Gemma 4 31B IT.

Side by side

Gemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index37.343.5
Released—2026-04-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.09
Output $ / M tokens—$0.34
Results tracked1835

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198), Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Coding12681459
LMArena WebDev—1366
SciCode—43.4%
WeirdML—52.3%
ALE-Bench—925.5

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247), Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
Kagi LLM Benchmark31.5%63.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12841448
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 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188), Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Math12511465
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—73.3%

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198), Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Expert12461465
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
SimpleQA Verified—10.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3n E4b IT: —, Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Vision—1277
LMArena Document—1425

Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183), Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Non-English12851431
LMArena Chinese13091476
LMArena French13301435
LMArena Russian12881460
LMArena Spanish13051444
LMArena German1311—
LMArena Japanese1272—
LMArena Korean1259—

Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210), Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Instruction Following12551433

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191), Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Longer Query12761446

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186), Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96)

BenchmarkGemma 3n E4b ITGemma 4 31B IT
LMArena Text13061443
LMArena Creative Writing12871415
LMArena Multi-Turn12761452
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1368
EQ-Bench 4—1120

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT better than Gemma 4 31B IT?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3n E4b IT or Gemma 4 31B IT better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 37.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3n E4b IT and Gemma 4 31B IT share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 31B IT has 35.

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