Model comparison

Gemma 4 31B IT vs GPT-4 Turbo

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 31B IT Google

43.5

Rank #90 Confirmed

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher in 9 categories and GPT-4 Turbo in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads 43.2 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 73.3% for Gemma 4 31B IT and 6.7% for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.34 per million input/output tokens, against $10 / $30 for GPT-4 Turbo.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
  • Gemma 4 31B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 4 31B IT and GPT-4 Turbo specifications
Gemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index43.530.5
Released2026-04-022023-11-06
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.09$10
Output $ / M tokens$0.34$30
Results tracked3536

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 42.3 (#108), GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
WeirdML52.3%18%
LMArena Coding14591268
LMArena WebDev1366—
SciCode43.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—48.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—58.2%
ALE-Bench925.5—
HumanEval+—86.6%
MBPP+—73.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 31B IT: —, GPT-4 Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
METR Time Horizons—36.7%

Reasoning Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 27.2 (#122), GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
Chess Puzzles5%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14481251
DTBench82.7%61.6%
LMCA39.3%9.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.74127.25
SimpleBench—25.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)70.6%—
CritPt1.4%—
Thematic Generalization53%—
Surface Evolver Bench30.6%—
ForecastBench—59.4

Math Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 43.2 (#81), GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202573.3%6.7%
LMArena Math14651272
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—0.7%
MATH Level 5—46.7%

Knowledge Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 37.9 (#151), GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
GPQA Diamond75.8%46.6%
LMArena Expert14651223
SimpleQA Verified10.4%—
Confabulations—28.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
MMLU—81.3%

Multimodal Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 41.6 (#34), GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Vision12771090
LMArena Document1425—

Multilingual Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 53.8 (#57), GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Non-English14311245
LMArena Chinese14761242
LMArena French14351276
LMArena Russian14601259
LMArena Spanish14441260
LMArena German—1259
LMArena Japanese—1194
LMArena Korean—1187

Instruction Following Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 75.5 (#61), GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Instruction Following14331249

Long Context Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 44.2 (#71), GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Longer Query14461254

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 31B IT leads

Gemma 4 31B IT: 60.5 (#96), GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 4 31B ITGPT-4 Turbo
LMArena Text14431272
LMArena Creative Writing14151269
LMArena Multi-Turn14521267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1368—
EQ-Bench 41120—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 31B IT better than GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 4 31B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 31B IT or GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 4 31B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens; GPT-4 Turbo lists at $10 and $30.

Is Gemma 4 31B IT or GPT-4 Turbo better for coding?

Gemma 4 31B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.3 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 31B IT does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 31B IT and GPT-4 Turbo share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 31B IT has 35 scored results on Noometry and GPT-4 Turbo has 36.

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