Gemini 1.5 Pro vs Gemma 4 31B

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 1.5 Pro· Gemma 4 31B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 1.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 2M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 50. 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 16.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 22% to 80%.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 1.5 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. Gemini 1.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleGoogle
PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context2M256K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemini 1.5 ProGemma 4 31B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.045%
BrowseComp64%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
HumanEval56%
SWE-bench Verified5%
LiveCodeBench22%80%
SWE-bench Pro18%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro75%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro73%
VideoMMMU53.9%
Reasoning
BBH74%74.4%
MRCRv266.4%
KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins
MMLU64%
GPQA56.8%84.3%
SuperGPQA62%
MMLU-Pro57%85.2%
SimpleQA62%
HLE26.5%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM76%
MMLU-ProX66%
Mathematics
AIME 202466%
AIME 202565%
HMMT Feb 202360%
HMMT Feb 202462%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 22% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 16.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 1.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 74.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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