Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 E4B
~47
Winner · 2/8 categoriesPhi-4
40
2/8 categoriesGemma 4 E4B· Phi-4
Pick Gemma 4 E4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 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 40. 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 knowledge, where it averages 65.6 against 53.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 25.4% to 33%. Phi-4 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 Phi-4 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. Gemma 4 E4B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 16K for Phi-4.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 E4B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 44% |
| BrowseComp | — | 35% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 34% |
| CodingPhi-4 wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 52% | — |
| HumanEval | — | 82.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 55% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 52.6% | 54% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 38% |
| ReasoningPhi-4 wins | ||
| BBH | 33.1% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 25.4% | 33% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 30% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 E4B wins | ||
| GPQA | 58.6% | 56.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
| FrontierScience | — | 52% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 80.6% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 60% |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | — | 94.6% |
Gemma 4 E4B is ahead overall, 47 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 25.4% and 33%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 53.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Phi-4 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 55 versus 52. Gemma 4 E4B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Phi-4 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 31.4 versus 25.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 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 46.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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