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Gemma 3 4B vs GPT-5.4 Mini

GPT-5.4 Mini leads Gemma 3 4B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 24.1 to 4.8, and Gemma 3 4B costs 60.0x less per output token ($0.075 vs $4.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 36 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemma 3 4B Replace GPT-5.4 Mini
Gemma 3 4BGoogle
Coding
No data
Overall
22.6
Output $/M
$0.075
0
GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI
Coding
35.8
Overall
44.0
Output $/M
$4.50
36
vs boards won of 36 shared

Gemma 3 4B or GPT-5.4 Mini: which to pick

Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 3 4B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Gemma 3 4B for output tokens 60.0x cheaper ($0.075 vs $4.50 per million).

Model AGemma 3 4BGoogleNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BGPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI35.8/1005 independent benchmarks$0.70 per solved task
Shared results
36
Gemma 3 4B only
6
GPT-5.4 Mini only
53
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemma 3 4B not benchmarked, GPT-5.4 Mini 35.8 from 5 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 78.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
OTIS Mock AIME: Gemma 3 4B 7.5% against GPT-5.4 Mini 88.9%, 81.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemma 3 4B $0.075 against GPT-5.4 Mini $4.50 per million output tokens, 60.0x apart.
Context window
Gemma 3 4B takes 131K tokens, GPT-5.4 Mini 400K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemma 3 4BBarsGPT-5.4 MiniTies
Coding04
Intelligence02
Agentic work01
Reasoning07
Math03
Knowledge04
General015
All shared boards036
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
Coding benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
LMArena WebDevNot measured1397Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
AA Coding Index2.756.1GPT-5.4 Mini
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured81.5%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured73.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured2.5%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured48.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured12.9%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured54.7%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)11.2%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
SciCodeNot measured52.1%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)0.8%52.3%GPT-5.4 Mini
FrontierCodeNot measured27.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
WeirdMLNot measured60.3%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ALE-BenchNot measured1188.6Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding12301438GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT12691436GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1386Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1419Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
SciCode0.0%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
AA Intelligence Index4.824.1GPT-5.4 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index115.9148.7GPT-5.4 Mini
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured17.9Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured45.4%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured8.8%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured12.5%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured45.4%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
τ²-Bench Telecom5.0%83.3%GPT-5.4 Mini
DeepResearch BenchNot measured36.3%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)19.6%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index07
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured83.1%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured79.3%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)29.1%87.5%GPT-5.4 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.3%28.1%GPT-5.4 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)23.2%86.9%GPT-5.4 Mini
ARC-AGINot measured63.7%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured18.9%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured23.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured11.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts12531424GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: expert12231435GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English12531420GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1266Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1285Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark25.2%37.9%GPT-5.4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
AIMENot measured95.6%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
AA Math Index12.7Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)12.7%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
OTIS Mock AIME7.5%88.9%GPT-5.4 Mini
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured51.2%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured9.8%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ProofBenchNot measured21.0%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math12391418GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work12561429GPT-5.4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
MMLU ProNot measured84.5%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured51.7%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured60.9%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured71.2%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured63.5%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)41.7%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 4B measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured29.4%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13061417GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13421395GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government13271414GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13111418GPT-5.4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
Neither model has a result on 9 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index015
General benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured50.8%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured54.2%Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
IFBench28.3%73.3%GPT-5.4 Mini
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)6.7%77.0%GPT-5.4 Mini
DTBench50.9%80.0%GPT-5.4 Mini
LMCA2.8%40.8%GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text12911412GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: instruction following12391405GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing12701370GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena VisionNot measured1245Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13001412GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English12731405GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: ChineseNot measured1446Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: German12811408GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1375Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: KoreanNot measured1370Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: FrenchNot measured1441Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: SpanishNot measured1405Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: Russian12941417GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1415Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn12551429GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries12731408GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language12881393GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media12331373GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1244Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1286Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1253Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1235Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1218Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1222Only GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
BenchmarkGemma 3 4BGPT-5.4 MiniLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemma 3 4B$0.0001Fits in one request
GPT-5.4 Mini$0.0030Fits in one request

Gemma 3 4B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemma 3 4B$0.0025Fits in one request
GPT-5.4 Mini$0.051Fits in one request

Gemma 3 4B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemma 3 4B$0.0097Exceeds the context window
GPT-5.4 Mini$0.195Fits in one request

Gemma 3 4B costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemma 3 4B and GPT-5.4 Mini
SpecificationGoogle Gemma 3 4BOpenAI GPT-5.4 Mini
MakerGoogleOpenAI
WeightsOpen weightsNo public weights listed
ReleasedMarch 13, 2025March 17, 2026
Context window131K400K
Input $/Mtok$0.045$0.75
Output $/Mtok$0.075$4.50
Coding indexNot benchmarked35.8
Independent measurements behind it05
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.70
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemma 3 4B better than GPT-5.4 Mini for coding?

Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 3 4B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemma 3 4B for output tokens 60.0x cheaper ($0.075 vs $4.50 per million).

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 4B or GPT-5.4 Mini?

Gemma 3 4B costs $0.045 per million input tokens and $0.075 per million output tokens; GPT-5.4 Mini costs $0.75 and $4.50. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.4 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 3 4B or GPT-5.4 Mini?

GPT-5.4 Mini, with 400K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemma 3 4B vs GPT-5.4 Mini comparison based on?

36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemma 3 4B's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and GPT-5.4 Mini's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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