Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E4B
~47
Winner · 3/8 categoriesNova Pro
33
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 E4B· Nova Pro
Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nova Pro 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 33. 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 17. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 52% to 14%. Nova Pro 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 Nova Pro 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.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E4B | Nova Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| BrowseComp | — | 39% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 32% |
| CodingGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 52% | 14% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 20% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 52.6% | 37% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 46% |
| ReasoningNova Pro wins | ||
| BBH | 33.1% | 63% |
| MRCRv2 | 25.4% | — |
| MuSR | — | 37% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 51% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| GPQA | 58.6% | 40% |
| MMLU-Pro | 69.4% | 53% |
| MMLU | — | 41% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 38% |
| HLE | — | 4% |
| FrontierScience | — | 41% |
| SimpleQA | — | 39% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 66% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 61% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 60% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 41% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 43% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 42% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 37% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 39% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 38% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 40% |
Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 52% and 14%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 34.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 17. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Nova Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 45.4 versus 25.4. Inside this category, BBH is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.6 versus 41.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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