Gemma 4 E4B vs Grok 4.1 Fast

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· Grok 4.1 Fast

Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 4.1 Fast if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.

Grok 4.1 Fast is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 70 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Grok 4.1 Fast's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 87.9 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 25.4% to 89%.

Gemma 4 E4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Grok 4.1 Fast 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. Grok 4.1 Fast gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGooglexAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A138 t/s
TTFTN/A0.54s
Context128K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 E4BGrok 4.1 Fast
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.074%
BrowseComp73%
OSWorld-Verified66%
Claw-Eval53.8%
DeepPlanning19.1%
CodingGrok 4.1 Fast wins
LiveCodeBench52%54%
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified68%
SWE-bench Pro63%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro52.6%
ReasoningGrok 4.1 Fast wins
BBH33.1%87%
MRCRv225.4%89%
MuSR88%
LongBench v287%
KnowledgeGrok 4.1 Fast wins
GPQA58.6%92%
MMLU-Pro69.4%81%
MMLU94%
SuperGPQA90%
HLE20%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA90%
Instruction Following
IFEval90%
Multilingual
MGSM88%
MMLU-ProX83%
Mathematics
AIME 202396%
AIME 202498%
AIME 202597%
HMMT Feb 202392%
HMMT Feb 202494%
HMMT Feb 202593%
BRUMO 202595%
MATH-50089%
Frequently Asked Questions (4)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast is ahead overall, 70 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 25.4% and 89%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.9 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 Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 60.7 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 Grok 4.1 Fast?

Grok 4.1 Fast has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 87.9 versus 25.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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