Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 31B
65
ZAYA1-8B
62
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Knowledge
+11.8 difference
Gemma 4 31B
ZAYA1-8B
$0 / $0
$0 / $0
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256K
131K
Pick Gemma 4 31B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ZAYA1-8B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Gemma 4 31B has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 65 versus 62. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Gemma 4 31B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 131K for ZAYA1-8B.
Gemma 4 31B is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 65 to 62. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 84.3% and 71%.
ZAYA1-8B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 61.3. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
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