Gemini 3 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 3 Pro· Gemma 4 31B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 31B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Gemini 3 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 79 to 73. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 92.5 against 61.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 49% to 80%. Gemma 4 31B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Gemini 3 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 3 Pro gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleGoogle
PricePricing unavailableFree*
Speed109 t/sN/A
TTFT32.65sN/A
Context2M256K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 4 31B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.068%
BrowseComp83%
OSWorld-Verified66%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified59%
LiveCodeBench49%80%
SWE-bench Pro58%
Multimodal & GroundedGemini 3 Pro wins
MMMU87.2%
MMMU-Pro81%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro92%
RealWorldQA83.3%
OmniDocBench 1.588.5%
MathVision86.6%
We-Math86.9%
DynaMath85.1%
MStar83.1%
SimpleVQA73.2%
ChatCVQA81.4%
MMLongBench-Doc60.5%
CC-OCR79.0%
AI2D_TEST94.1%
CountBench97.3%
RefCOCO (avg)84.1%
ODINW1346.3%
ERQA70.5%
VideoMMMU87.6%
MLVU (M-Avg)83.0%
ScreenSpot Pro72.7%
ReasoningGemini 3 Pro wins
MuSR93%
BBH90%74.4%
LongBench v290%
MRCRv287%66.4%
ARC-AGI-231.1%
KnowledgeGemini 3 Pro wins
MMLU99%
GPQA97%84.3%
SuperGPQA95%
FrontierScience86%
SimpleQA95%
MMLU-Pro85.2%
HLE26.5%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
Instruction Following
Coming soon
Multilingual
Coming soon
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
AIME 202598%
HMMT Feb 202395%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 3 Pro is ahead overall, 79 to 73. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 49% and 80%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 92.5 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 54.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 75.1 versus 66.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemini 3 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 86 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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