Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DBRX Instruct
41
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 E4B
~47
Winner · 3/8 categoriesDBRX Instruct· Gemma 4 E4B
Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DBRX Instruct only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Gemma 4 E4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 41. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 E4B's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 52.6 against 35.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMMU-Pro, 36% to 52.6%. DBRX Instruct does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while DBRX Instruct is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemma 4 E4B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for DBRX Instruct.
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| Benchmark | DBRX Instruct | Gemma 4 E4B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 41% | — |
| BrowseComp | 31% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 29% | — |
| CodingGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 70.1% | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 48% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 52% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 36% | 52.6% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 35% | — |
| ReasoningDBRX Instruct wins | ||
| LongBench v2 | 36% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 37% | 25.4% |
| BBH | — | 33.1% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| MMLU | 73.7% | — |
| FrontierScience | 52% | — |
| GPQA | — | 58.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 69.4% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MMLU-ProX | 46% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 41. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMMU-Pro, where the scores are 36% and 52.6%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 52. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 48. DBRX Instruct stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DBRX Instruct has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 36.5 versus 25.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 versus 35.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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