Gemma 4 31B vs GPT-OSS 120B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 4 31B· GPT-OSS 120B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-OSS 120B only becomes the better choice if 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 30. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 80% to 25%.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-OSS 120B 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 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GPT-OSS 120B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A262 t/s
TTFTN/A0.79s
Context256K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 31BGPT-OSS 120B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.043%
BrowseComp50%
OSWorld-Verified43%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%25%
HumanEval43%
SWE-bench Verified29%
SWE-bench Pro31%
SWE-Rebench33.3%
React Native Evals66.4%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%42%
OfficeQA Pro57%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
BBH74.4%73%
MRCRv266.4%59%
MuSR47%
LongBench v258%
KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins
GPQA84.3%80.9%
MMLU-Pro85.2%90%
HLE26.5%5%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU90%
SuperGPQA48%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA49%
Instruction Following
IFEval79%
Multilingual
MGSM72%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics
AIME 202351%
AIME 202453%
AIME 202552%
HMMT Feb 202347%
HMMT Feb 202449%
HMMT Feb 202548%
BRUMO 202550%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 80% and 25%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 51.6. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 30. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 55.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 31B or GPT-OSS 120B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 48.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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