Gemma 4 E4B vs o1-preview

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· o1-preview

Quick Verdict

Pick o1-preview 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.

o1-preview is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o1-preview's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 85.4 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 93%.

o1-preview gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context128K200K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

BenchmarkGemma 4 E4Bo1-preview
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp79%
OSWorld-Verified71%
Codingo1-preview wins
LiveCodeBench52%60%
HumanEval86%
SWE-bench Verified65%
SWE-bench Pro69%
Multimodal & Groundedo1-preview wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%72%
OfficeQA Pro80%
Reasoningo1-preview wins
BBH33.1%93%
MRCRv225.4%83%
MuSR86%
LongBench v287%
Knowledgeo1-preview wins
GPQA58.6%90%
MMLU-Pro69.4%80%
MMLU92%
SuperGPQA88%
HLE32%
FrontierScience83%
SimpleQA88%
Instruction Following
IFEval88%
Multilingual
MGSM90%
MMLU-ProX86%
Mathematics
AIME 202394%
AIME 202496%
AIME 202595%
HMMT Feb 202390%
HMMT Feb 202492%
HMMT Feb 202591%
BRUMO 202593%
MATH-50094%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or o1-preview?

o1-preview is ahead overall, 72 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 93%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.7 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 o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 64.6 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 o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 85.4 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 o1-preview?

o1-preview has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 75.6 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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