Google · Released Apr 2, 2026

Gemma 4 31B

Gemma 4 31B Instruct is Google DeepMind's 30.7B dense multimodal model supporting text and image input with text output. Features a 256K token context window, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, native function...

Free tierReasoningOpen weightsVision
Released
Apr 2 2026
Context window
262K 16K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.20 from $0.10
Output / 1M tokens
$0.40 from $0.32

Where to run it

12 providers compared

Cheapest: CoreWeave at $0.10 / $0.34 per 1M input / output tokens — 80% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
CoreWeaveFP4 $0.10 $0.34 $0.10262K236K99.9%24h Cheapest
VeniceFP4 $0.12 $0.36 $0.09256K8K99.7%24h +12%
ChutesFP4 $0.12 $0.37 $0.012131K66K99.8%24h +14%
DeepInfraFP8 · no tool calling $0.16 $0.32 —262K236K95.1%24h +25%
Friendli $0.14 $0.40 —262K8K99.9%24h +28%
CrusoeBF16 $0.14 $0.40 $0.14262K262K96%24h +28%
NovitaBF16 $0.14 $0.40 —262K131K93%24h +28%
ParasailFP8 $0.15 $0.40 $0.06262K236K98.1%24h +33%
DeepInfraFP4 $0.14 $0.51 $0.075262K16K99.9%24h +43%
DeepInfraFP8 $0.20 $0.40 —262K16K99.3%24h +56%
DeepInfrapriority · FP8 · no tool calling $0.30 $0.60 —262K236K98.9%24h +134%
Io Net $0.36 $1.09 $0.18262K16K95.3%24h +240%
SambaNova $0.38 $1.15 —131K118K97.2%24h +258%
ModelRunFP4 $0.75 $1.00 $0.20262K236K99.3%24h +408%
SiliconFlowFP8 $0.75 $1.00 $0.25262K236K95.8%24h +408%

Value

Price vs. performance

13 models score higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. GPT-5.6 Luna.
25.3%49.0%72.7%96.4% $0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 89.8% · $0.30/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $0.68/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 89.8% · $0.056/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.047/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.079/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.44/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.62/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.95/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $0.97/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.10/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.15/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.39/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $0.60/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Gemma 4 31B

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Benchmarks

7 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 45.5% #63of 93 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 10.4% #66of 66 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
WebDev ArenaDesign & visual · People vote on which model builds the better website (Elo) 1364 #74of 88 Claude Opus 5.51820
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 75.8% #76of 92 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 1.4% #73of 96 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 39.3% #52of 96 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 73.3% #75of 90 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
google/gemma-4-31b-it
Developer
Google
Release date
Apr 2, 2026 ·
Context window
262,144 tokens
Max output
16,384 tokens
API price
$0.20 / $0.40 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
12
Input types
image, text, video
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
Yes
Free tier
Yes

Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.