Gemma 4 E2B vs Moonshot v1

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· Moonshot v1

Quick Verdict

Pick Moonshot v1 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E2B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Moonshot v1 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 43 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Moonshot v1's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 54.9 against 19.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 21.9% to 73%. Gemma 4 E2B does hit back in coding, 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 Moonshot v1 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.

Operational tradeoffs

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SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E2BMoonshot v1
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
BrowseComp49%
OSWorld-Verified41%
CodingGemma 4 E2B wins
LiveCodeBench44%21%
HumanEval45%
SWE-bench Verified34%
SWE-bench Pro30%
Multimodal & GroundedMoonshot v1 wins
MMMU-Pro44.2%49%
OfficeQA Pro57%
ReasoningMoonshot v1 wins
BBH21.9%73%
MRCRv219.1%56%
MuSR49%
LongBench v258%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E2B wins
GPQA43.4%52%
MMLU-Pro60%64%
MMLU53%
SuperGPQA50%
HLE5%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA51%
Instruction Following
IFEval77%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX68%
Mathematics
AIME 202353%
AIME 202455%
AIME 202554%
HMMT Feb 202349%
HMMT Feb 202451%
HMMT Feb 202550%
BRUMO 202552%
MATH-50072%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E2B or Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 is ahead overall, 43 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 21.9% and 73%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E2B or Moonshot v1?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.1 versus 42.9. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E2B or Moonshot v1?

Gemma 4 E2B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 27.5. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E2B or Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 54.9 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 Moonshot v1?

Moonshot v1 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 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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