Gemma 4 E2B vs GPT-5 (medium)

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 E2B· GPT-5 (medium)

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5 (medium) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

GPT-5 (medium) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 76 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-5 (medium)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 82.1 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 92%.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A83 t/s
TTFTN/A36.28s
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E2BGPT-5 (medium)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp78%
OSWorld-Verified72%
CodingGPT-5 (medium) wins
LiveCodeBench44%60%
HumanEval83%
SWE-bench Verified67%
SWE-bench Pro72%
Multimodal & GroundedGPT-5 (medium) wins
MMMU-Pro44.2%89%
OfficeQA Pro87%
ReasoningGPT-5 (medium) wins
BBH21.9%92%
MRCRv219.1%81%
MuSR85%
LongBench v281%
KnowledgeGPT-5 (medium) wins
GPQA43.4%89%
MMLU-Pro60%81%
MMLU91%
SuperGPQA87%
HLE27%
FrontierScience82%
SimpleQA87%
Instruction Following
IFEval88%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX87%
Mathematics
AIME 202393%
AIME 202495%
AIME 202594%
HMMT Feb 202389%
HMMT Feb 202491%
HMMT Feb 202590%
BRUMO 202592%
MATH-50092%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E2B or GPT-5 (medium)?

GPT-5 (medium) is ahead overall, 76 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 92%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E2B or GPT-5 (medium)?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.2 versus 54.1. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E2B or GPT-5 (medium)?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.2 versus 44. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E2B or GPT-5 (medium)?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 19.1. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 E2B or GPT-5 (medium)?

GPT-5 (medium) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 88.1 versus 44.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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