Model comparison

Gemma 3 4B vs Llama 3.2 3B

Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 14 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 4B

Google

28.1

Rank #326 Confirmed

Llama 3.2 3B

Summary

They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 4B scores higher in 6 categories and Llama 3.2 3B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 3.2 3B leads 29.7 to 11.8.
Gemma 3 4B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.08 per million input/output tokens, against $0.05 / $0.33 for Llama 3.2 3B.

Side by side

Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3.2 3B specifications
	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
Provider	Google	Meta
Noometry Index	28.1	28.9
Released	2025-03-12	2024-09-24
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	131K	131K
Max output	4K	118K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.04	$0.05
Output $ / M tokens	$0.08	$0.33
Results tracked	22	18

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 35.9 (#215), Llama 3.2 3B: 27.6 (#319)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Coding	1230	1098
BigCodeBench Instruct	—	23.4%
BigCodeBench Complete	—	28.3%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemma 3 4B: 20.9 (#142), Llama 3.2 3B: 20.1 (#143)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	19.6%	21.9%
BALROG	—	10.1%

Reasoning Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 13.2 (#335), Llama 3.2 3B: 21.0 (#228)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Hard Prompts	1253	1095
Kagi LLM Benchmark	25.2%	—
Chess Puzzles	0%	—
DTBench	50.9%	—
LMCA	2.8%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	116.02	—

Math Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 16.8 (#292), Llama 3.2 3B: 32.4 (#214)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Math	1239	1126
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	7.5%	—

Knowledge Llama 3.2 3B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 11.8 (#299), Llama 3.2 3B: 29.7 (#235)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Expert	1223	1090
GPQA Diamond	23.2%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	6.4%	—

Multilingual Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.5 (#194), Llama 3.2 3B: 26.2 (#281)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Non-English	1273	1019
LMArena German	1281	1056
LMArena Russian	1294	949
LMArena Chinese	—	1017

Instruction Following Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 65.2 (#225), Llama 3.2 3B: 56.0 (#275)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Instruction Following	1239	1089

Long Context Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 38.7 (#194), Llama 3.2 3B: 33.4 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Longer Query	1273	1100

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 4B leads

Gemma 3 4B: 42.0 (#239), Llama 3.2 3B: 24.7 (#307)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 3 4B	Llama 3.2 3B
LMArena Text	1291	1110
LMArena Creative Writing	1271	1094
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1068	595
LMArena Multi-Turn	1255	1105

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3.2 3B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.1 vs 28.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or Llama 3.2 3B?

Gemma 3 4B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.08 per million output tokens; Llama 3.2 3B lists at $0.05 and $0.33.

Is Gemma 3 4B or Llama 3.2 3B better for coding?

Gemma 3 4B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 27.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 131K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 4B and Llama 3.2 3B share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 4B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.2 3B has 18.