Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E2B
~39
Winner · 1/8 categoriesGranite-4.0-1B
~36
0/8 categoriesGemma 4 E2B· Granite-4.0-1B
Pick Gemma 4 E2B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-1B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Gemma 4 E2B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 39 versus 36. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Gemma 4 E2B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 54.1 against 31.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 59.7%.
Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-1B 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.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E2B | Granite-4.0-1B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Coding | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 44% | — |
| HumanEval | — | 73% |
| Multimodal & Grounded | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 44.2% | — |
| Reasoning | ||
| BBH | 21.9% | 59.7% |
| MRCRv2 | 19.1% | — |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins | ||
| GPQA | 43.4% | 29.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60% | 32.9% |
| MMLU | — | 59.7% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 78.5% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 27.5% |
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Gemma 4 E2B is ahead overall, 39 to 36. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 59.7%.
Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 31.7. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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