Gemma 4 31B vs Llama 4 Scout

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· Llama 4 Scout

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Scout only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 10M context window 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 44. 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 reasoning, where it averages 66.4 against 43. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 85.2% to 51%.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 4 Scout 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. Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A128 t/s
TTFTN/A0.70s
Context256K10M

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.

BenchmarkGemma 4 31BLlama 4 Scout
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
Coding
LiveCodeBench80%
HumanEval39%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%60%
OfficeQA Pro55%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
BBH74.4%60%
MRCRv266.4%
MuSR43%
KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins
GPQA84.3%
MMLU-Pro85.2%51%
HLE26.5%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
SuperGPQA44%
SimpleQA45%
Instruction Following
IFEval68%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics
AIME 202548%
HMMT Feb 202343%
HMMT Feb 202445%
HMMT Feb 202544%
BRUMO 202546%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Llama 4 Scout?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 85.2% and 51%.

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

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 47.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

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

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 43. 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 Llama 4 Scout?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 57.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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