Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
57
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 31B
73
Winner · 3/8 categoriesClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking· Gemma 4 31B
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.
Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 31B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 80 against 45.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 45% to 80%. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.
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| Benchmark | Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking | Gemma 4 31B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| BrowseComp | 54% | — |
| CodingGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.5% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 45% | 80% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 29% | — |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| OfficeQA Pro | 69% | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 76.9% |
| ReasoningClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking wins | ||
| MuSR | 72% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 74% | 66.4% |
| BBH | — | 74.4% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| MMLU | 76% | — |
| GPQA | 80.9% | 84.3% |
| SuperGPQA | 72% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 76% | 85.2% |
| HLE | 8% | 26.5% |
| FrontierScience | 41% | — |
| SimpleQA | 36% | — |
| HLE w/o tools | — | 19.5% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | 82% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 73% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2024 | 40% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 36% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 35% | — |
Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 45% and 80%.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 49. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 45.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 66.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 69. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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