Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
DeepSeek-R1
45
0/8 categoriesGemma 4 31B
73
Winner · 4/8 categoriesDeepSeek-R1· Gemma 4 31B
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek-R1 only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 45. 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 28.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 19% to 80%.
DeepSeek-R1 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.55 input / $2.19 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 31B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for DeepSeek-R1.
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| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Gemma 4 31B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 42% | — |
| BrowseComp | 49% | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 44% | — |
| CodingGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 92% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 49.2% | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 19% | 80% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 25% | — |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 43% | 76.9% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 53% | — |
| ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| MuSR | 40% | — |
| BBH | 66% | 74.4% |
| LongBench v2 | 58% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 57% | 66.4% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins | ||
| MMLU | 90.8% | — |
| GPQA | 71.5% | 84.3% |
| SuperGPQA | 41% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84% | 85.2% |
| HLE | 14% | 26.5% |
| FrontierScience | 44% | — |
| SimpleQA | 30.1% | — |
| HLE w/o tools | — | 19.5% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | 83.3% | — |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | 61% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 60% | — |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | 44% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 79.8% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 45% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 40% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 42% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 41% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 43% | — |
| MATH-500 | 97.3% | — |
Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 45. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 19% and 80%.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 47. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 28.3. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 40. 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 47.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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