Gemma 4 31B vs Qwen2.5-1M

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· Qwen2.5-1M

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-1M only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 73 to 62. 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 45.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 80% to 40%. Qwen2.5-1M does hit back in reasoning, 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 Qwen2.5-1M 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. Qwen2.5-1M gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 31B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 31BQwen2.5-1M
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.065%
BrowseComp72%
OSWorld-Verified59%
CodingGemma 4 31B wins
LiveCodeBench80%40%
HumanEval76%
SWE-bench Verified47%
SWE-bench Pro49%
Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 31B wins
MMMU-Pro76.9%63%
OfficeQA Pro75%
ReasoningQwen2.5-1M wins
BBH74.4%82%
MRCRv266.4%81%
MuSR79%
LongBench v282%
KnowledgeQwen2.5-1M wins
GPQA84.3%83%
MMLU-Pro85.2%74%
HLE26.5%10%
HLE w/o tools19.5%
MMLU84%
SuperGPQA81%
FrontierScience74%
SimpleQA81%
Instruction Following
IFEval84%
Multilingual
MGSM81%
MMLU-ProX80%
Mathematics
AIME 202385%
AIME 202487%
AIME 202586%
HMMT Feb 202381%
HMMT Feb 202483%
HMMT Feb 202582%
BRUMO 202584%
MATH-50083%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 31B or Qwen2.5-1M?

Gemma 4 31B is ahead overall, 73 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 80% and 40%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 31B or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.1 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 Qwen2.5-1M?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 80 versus 45.1. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 31B or Qwen2.5-1M?

Qwen2.5-1M has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 80.9 versus 66.4. 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 Qwen2.5-1M?

Gemma 4 31B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 68.4. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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