Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemma 4 E4B
39
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
58
Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Knowledge
+1.3 difference
Gemma 4 E4B
ZAYA1-74B-Preview
$0 / $0
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
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128K
256K
Pick ZAYA1-74B-Preview if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 E4B only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 58 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Gemma 4 E4B.
ZAYA1-74B-Preview is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 58 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 69.4% and 68.1%.
Gemma 4 E4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.6 versus 64.3. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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