Gemma 4 E4B vs GPT-4 Turbo

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 E4B· GPT-4 Turbo

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4 Turbo only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Gemma 4 E4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 47 to 43. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemma 4 E4B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 52 against 10.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 75%. GPT-4 Turbo does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-4 Turbo 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

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A30 t/s
TTFTN/A2.84s
Context128K128K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BGPT-4 Turbo
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.042%
BrowseComp54%
OSWorld-Verified41%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
LiveCodeBench52%
HumanEval52%
SWE-bench Verified5%
SWE-bench Pro14%
Multimodal & GroundedGPT-4 Turbo wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%53%
OfficeQA Pro58%
ReasoningGPT-4 Turbo wins
BBH33.1%75%
MRCRv225.4%
MuSR56%
LongBench v262%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
GPQA58.6%60%
MMLU-Pro69.4%51%
MMLU60%
SuperGPQA58%
HLE1%
FrontierScience52%
SimpleQA58%
Instruction Following
IFEval80%
Multilingual
MGSM75%
MMLU-ProX65%
Mathematics
AIME 202360%
AIME 202462%
HMMT Feb 202557%
BRUMO 202559%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 43. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 75%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 42.5. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-4 Turbo?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 10.6. GPT-4 Turbo stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.6 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-4 Turbo?

GPT-4 Turbo has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 55.3 versus 52.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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