Gemma 4 31B vs o1-preview

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· o1-preview

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1-preview only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.

Gemma 4 31B finishes one point ahead overall, 73 to 72. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Gemma 4 31B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 80 against 64.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 80% to 60%. o1-preview does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o1-preview.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 31Bo1-preview
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp79%
OSWorld-Verified71%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%60%
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified65%
SWE-bench Pro69%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%72%
OfficeQA Pro80%
Reasoningo1-preview wins
BBH74.4%93%
MRCRv266.4%83%
MuSR86%
LongBench v287%
Knowledgeo1-preview wins
GPQA84.3%90%
MMLU-Pro85.2%80%
HLE26.5%32%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU92%
SuperGPQA88%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA88%
Instruction Following
IFEval88%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX86%
Mathematics
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202595%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202591%
BRUMO 202593%
MATH-50094%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or o1-preview?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 72. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 80% and 60%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.7 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 31B or o1-preview?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 64.6. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 85.4 versus 66.4. 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 o1-preview?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 75.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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