DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) vs Gemma 4 E4B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)· Gemma 4 E4B

Quick Verdict

Pick DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 67 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 60.1 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 86% to 33.1%. Gemma 4 E4B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking)Gemma 4 E4B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.071%
BrowseComp70%
OSWorld-Verified67%
DeepPlanning27.4%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
HumanEval79%
SWE-bench Verified48%
LiveCodeBench45%52%
SWE-bench Pro58%
Multimodal & GroundedDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
MMMU-Pro66%52.6%
ReasoningDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
MuSR81%
BBH86%33.1%
LongBench v278%
MRCRv278%25.4%
ARC-AGI-24%
KnowledgeDeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) wins
MMLU87%
GPQA85%58.6%
SuperGPQA83%
MMLU-Pro73%69.4%
HLE22%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA83%
Instruction Following
IFEval85%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202383%
HMMT Feb 202485%
HMMT Feb 202584%
BRUMO 202586%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Gemma 4 E4B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) is ahead overall, 67 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 86% and 33.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Gemma 4 E4B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.9 versus 65.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Gemma 4 E4B?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 50.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Gemma 4 E4B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.1 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) or Gemma 4 E4B?

DeepSeek V3.2 (Thinking) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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