Gemma 4 31B vs Nemotron-4 15B

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-4 15B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nemotron-4 15B 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 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 80% to 22%.

Gemma 4 31B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nemotron-4 15B 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-4 15B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleNVIDIA
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
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-4 15B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp47%
OSWorld-Verified42%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%22%
HumanEval46%
SWE-bench Verified31%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%46%
OfficeQA Pro54%
ReasoningGemma 4 31B wins
BBH74.4%73%
MRCRv266.4%51%
MuSR50%
LongBench v252%
KnowledgeGemma 4 31B wins
GPQA84.3%
MMLU-Pro85.2%63%
HLE26.5%5%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU54%
FrontierScience50%
Instruction Following
IFEval79%
Multilingual
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX71%
Mathematics
AIME 202354%
AIME 202456%
HMMT Feb 202551%
BRUMO 202553%
MATH-50071%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 80% and 22%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.3 versus 38.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 25.4. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or Nemotron-4 15B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 66.4 versus 51.1. 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-4 15B?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 49.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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