Gemini 1.0 Pro vs Gemma 4 E2B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemini 1.0 Pro· Gemma 4 E2B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 1.0 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 128K context window.

Gemini 1.0 Pro finishes one point ahead overall, 40 to 39. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Gemini 1.0 Pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 53.9 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 73% to 21.9%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 1.0 Pro 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 E2B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Gemini 1.0 Pro.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleGoogle
PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGemini 1.0 ProGemma 4 E2B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.036%
BrowseComp51%
OSWorld-Verified36%
CodingGemma 4 E2B wins
HumanEval54%
SWE-bench Verified5%
LiveCodeBench44%
Multimodal & GroundedGemini 1.0 Pro wins
MMMU-Pro73%44.2%
OfficeQA Pro62%
ReasoningGemini 1.0 Pro wins
MuSR58%
BBH73%21.9%
LongBench v251%
MRCRv254%19.1%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins
MMLU62%
GPQA62%43.4%
SuperGPQA60%
MMLU-Pro54%60%
HLE1%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA60%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM72%
MMLU-ProX64%
Mathematics
AIME 202362%
HMMT Feb 202358%
HMMT Feb 202460%
HMMT Feb 202559%
BRUMO 202561%
MATH-50072%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro is ahead overall, 40 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 73% and 21.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 44.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 5. Gemini 1.0 Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 53.9 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 1.0 Pro or Gemma 4 E2B?

Gemini 1.0 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.1 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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