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Gemma 4 31B vs GLM 4.6

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Winner summary

Gemma 4 31B wins 7 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · coding · reasoning.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Gemma 4 31B
#101 by perf·#7 by attention
DESERVED
GLM 4.6
#117 by perf·#3 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
5.3x better value than GLM 4.6
Gemma 4 31B
245.6 pts/$
$0.22/M
GLM 4.6
46.6 pts/$
$1.09/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
Gemma 4 31BGLM 4.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Gemma 4 31B leads by +25.3
Gemma 4 31B
1364.7
GLM 4.6
1339.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemma 4 31B leads by +28.7
Gemma 4 31B
1452.8
GLM 4.6
1424.1
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
Gemma 4 31B leads by +5.0
Gemma 4 31B
40.0
GLM 4.6
35.0
LiveBench · Coding
GLM 4.6 leads by +10.7
Gemma 4 31B
60.3
GLM 4.6
71.0
LiveBench · Data Analysis
Gemma 4 31B leads by +6.8
Gemma 4 31B
58.8
GLM 4.6
52.0
LiveBench · If
Gemma 4 31B leads by +41.4
Gemma 4 31B
67.6
GLM 4.6
26.2
LiveBench · Language
Gemma 4 31B leads by +12.4
Gemma 4 31B
71.3
GLM 4.6
59.0
LiveBench · Mathematics
GLM 4.6 leads by +7.2
Gemma 4 31B
73.9
GLM 4.6
81.1
LiveBench · Overall
Gemma 4 31B leads by +6.4
Gemma 4 31B
61.6
GLM 4.6
55.2
LiveBench · Reasoning
GLM 4.6 leads by +2.6
Gemma 4 31B
59.4
GLM 4.6
62.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGemma 4 31BGLM 4.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1364.71339.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1452.81424.1
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
40.035.0
LiveBench · Coding
60.371.0
LiveBench · Data Analysis
58.852.0
LiveBench · If
67.626.2
LiveBench · Language
71.359.0
LiveBench · Mathematics
73.981.1
LiveBench · Overall
61.655.2
LiveBench · Reasoning
59.462.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemma 4 31B$0.09$0.34262K tokens (~131 books)$1.53
z-ai logoGLM 4.6$0.43$1.75205K tokens (~102 books)$7.60