Gemma 4 31B vs Grok 4

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· Grok 4

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 4 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority 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 68. 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 65.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 26.5% to 16%. Grok 4 does hit back in knowledge, 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 Grok 4 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 Grok 4.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGooglexAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A54 t/s
TTFTN/A15.60s
Context256K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 31BGrok 4
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.057%
BrowseComp63%
OSWorld-Verified56%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%79.4%
HumanEval79%
SWE-bench Verified73%
SWE-bench Pro48%
React Native Evals70.1%
Multimodal & GroundedGrok 4 wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%80%
OfficeQA Pro76%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
BBH74.4%83%
MRCRv266.4%71%
MuSR81%
LongBench v272%
ARC-AGI-216%
KnowledgeGrok 4 wins
GPQA84.3%86%
MMLU-Pro85.2%77%
HLE26.5%16%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU87%
SuperGPQA84%
FrontierScience75%
SimpleQA83%
Instruction Following
IFEval82%
Multilingual
MGSM84%
MMLU-ProX79%
Mathematics
AIME 202387%
AIME 202489%
AIME 202588%
HMMT Feb 202384%
HMMT Feb 202486%
HMMT Feb 202585%
BRUMO 202587%
MATH-50083%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Grok 4?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 68. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 26.5% and 16%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.3 versus 61.3. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or Grok 4?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 65.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or Grok 4?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 59.6. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Grok 4?

Grok 4 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.2 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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