Gemma 4 E4B vs GPT-5 (high)

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-5 (high)

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5 (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.

GPT-5 (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 82 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-5 (high)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 83.1 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 94%.

Operational tradeoffs

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

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BGPT-5 (high)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.078%
BrowseComp75%
OSWorld-Verified72%
DeepPlanning30.5%
CodingGPT-5 (high) wins
LiveCodeBench52%62%
HumanEval85%
SWE-bench Verified67%
SWE-bench Pro70%
Multimodal & GroundedGPT-5 (high) wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%93%
OfficeQA Pro85%
ReasoningGPT-5 (high) wins
BBH33.1%94%
MRCRv225.4%80%
MuSR87%
LongBench v283%
KnowledgeGPT-5 (high) wins
GPQA58.6%91%
MMLU-Pro69.4%83%
MMLU93%
SuperGPQA89%
HLE27%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA89%
Instruction Following
IFEval91%
Multilingual
MGSM89%
MMLU-ProX85%
Mathematics
AIME 202395%
AIME 202497%
AIME 202596%
HMMT Feb 202391%
HMMT Feb 202493%
HMMT Feb 202592%
BRUMO 202594%
MATH-50094%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-5 (high)?

GPT-5 (high) is ahead overall, 82 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 94%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-5 (high)?

GPT-5 (high) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 65.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-5 (high)?

GPT-5 (high) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 66.2 versus 52. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or GPT-5 (high)?

GPT-5 (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 83.1 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-5 (high)?

GPT-5 (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 89.4 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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