Gemma 4 E4B vs o4-mini (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· o4-mini (high)

Quick Verdict

Pick o4-mini (high) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

o4-mini (high) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 47. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

o4-mini (high)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 57.2 against 25.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is BBH, 33.1% to 83%. Gemma 4 E4B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

o4-mini (high) gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A161 t/s
TTFTN/A21.94s
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 E4Bo4-mini (high)
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.058%
BrowseComp64%
OSWorld-Verified55%
CodingGemma 4 E4B wins
LiveCodeBench52%34%
HumanEval74%
SWE-bench Verified68.1%
SWE-bench Pro42%
Multimodal & Groundedo4-mini (high) wins
MMMU-Pro52.6%66%
OfficeQA Pro71%
Reasoningo4-mini (high) wins
BBH33.1%83%
MRCRv225.4%74%
MuSR78%
LongBench v275%
ARC-AGI-22.4%
KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins
GPQA58.6%82%
MMLU-Pro69.4%76%
MMLU82%
SuperGPQA80%
HLE13%
FrontierScience73%
SimpleQA80%
Instruction Following
IFEval83%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX81%
Mathematics
AIME 202383%
AIME 202493.4%
AIME 202592.7%
HMMT Feb 202379%
HMMT Feb 202481%
HMMT Feb 202580%
BRUMO 202582%
MATH-50084%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 E4B or o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) is ahead overall, 58 to 47. The biggest single separator in this matchup is BBH, where the scores are 33.1% and 83%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 E4B or o4-mini (high)?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 62.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 E4B or o4-mini (high)?

Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 52 versus 44.9. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 E4B or o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 57.2 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 o4-mini (high)?

o4-mini (high) has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.3 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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