Gemma 4 E2B vs Llama 4 Scout

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· Llama 4 Scout

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Scout if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Llama 4 Scout is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 44 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Llama 4 Scout's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 43 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 60%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E2B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 4 Scout 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. Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E2B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A128 t/s
TTFTN/A0.70s
Context128K10M

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGemma 4 E2BLlama 4 Scout
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
Coding
LiveCodeBench44%
HumanEval39%
Multimodal & GroundedLlama 4 Scout wins
MMMU-Pro44.2%60%
OfficeQA Pro55%
ReasoningLlama 4 Scout wins
BBH21.9%60%
MRCRv219.1%
MuSR43%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins
GPQA43.4%
MMLU-Pro60%51%
SuperGPQA44%
SimpleQA45%
Instruction Following
IFEval68%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics
AIME 202548%
HMMT Feb 202343%
HMMT Feb 202445%
HMMT Feb 202544%
BRUMO 202546%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E2B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout is ahead overall, 44 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 60%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E2B or Llama 4 Scout?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 47.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E2B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 43 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 Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.8 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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