Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 31B
65
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
58
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-74B-Preview only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Coding
+11.6 difference
Knowledge
+3.0 difference
Gemma 4 31B
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
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Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-74B-Preview only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Gemma 4 31B is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 65 to 58. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemma 4 31B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 58. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 84.3% and 57.3%.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.3 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 53.2 versus 41.6. Gemma 4 31B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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