Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
88
Gemma 4 E2B
23
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #7 · Gemma 4 E2B unranked
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Knowledge
+3.9 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Gemma 4 E2B
$1.5 / $9
$0 / $0
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
128K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 88 to 23. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 58 against 54.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 92.2% to 43.4%.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.50 input / $9.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 E2B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Gemini 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E2B.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 88 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 92.2% and 43.4%.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58 versus 54.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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