Gemini 2.5 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 2.5 Pro· Gemma 4 31B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 2.5 Pro only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 65. 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 45.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 37% to 80%. Gemini 2.5 Pro does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 2.5 Pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.25 input / $5.00 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 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 2.5 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 2.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleGoogle
Price$1.25 / $5.00Free*
Speed117 t/sN/A
TTFT21.19sN/A
Context1M256K

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 2.5 ProGemma 4 31B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.061%
BrowseComp72%
OSWorld-Verified55%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
HumanEval75%
SWE-bench Verified63.8%
LiveCodeBench37%80%
SWE-bench Pro44%
Multimodal & GroundedGemini 2.5 Pro wins
MMMU-Pro86%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro84%
VideoMMMU83.6%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
MuSR79%
BBH81%74.4%
LongBench v280%
MRCRv283%66.4%
ARC-AGI-24.9%
KnowledgeGemini 2.5 Pro wins
MMLU83%
GPQA83%84.3%
SuperGPQA81%
MMLU-Pro76%85.2%
HLE18.8%26.5%
FrontierScience70%
SimpleQA81%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
Instruction Following
Coming soon
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX82%
Mathematics
AIME 202384%
AIME 202492%
AIME 202585%
HMMT Feb 202380%
HMMT Feb 202482%
HMMT Feb 202581%
BRUMO 202583%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 37% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 63.9 versus 61.3. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 45.9. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 61.8. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 85.1 versus 76.9. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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