Gemma 4 31B vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

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· Nemotron 3 Nano 30B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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 42. 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 22.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 80% to 16%.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron 3 Nano 30B 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 32K for Nemotron 3 Nano 30B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A152 t/s
TTFTN/A1.90s
Context256K32K

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 31BNemotron 3 Nano 30B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.038%
BrowseComp43%
OSWorld-Verified39%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%16%
HumanEval49%
SWE-bench Verified26%
SWE-bench Pro27%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%38%
OfficeQA Pro54%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
BBH74.4%72%
MRCRv266.4%51%
MuSR52%
LongBench v251%
KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins
GPQA84.3%56%
MMLU-Pro85.2%65%
HLE26.5%1%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU57%
SuperGPQA54%
FrontierScience54%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction Following
IFEval78%
Multilingual
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics
AIME 202357%
AIME 202459%
HMMT Feb 202455%
HMMT Feb 202554%
BRUMO 202556%
MATH-50073%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 80% and 16%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 44.5. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 22.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 51.3. 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 Nemotron 3 Nano 30B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 45.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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