Gemma 3 4B vs Grok 4.7
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Gemma 3 4B vs Grok 4.7 Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | Gemma 3 4B | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | SpaceXAI | |
| Category | open | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | — |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K | 500K |
| Parameters | 4B | |
| License | Custom | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.050 | $1.60 |
| Output $/1M | $0.100 | $4.80 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | ||
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Object Detection | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 71.9% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.012 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 23.55s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 40.4% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.8 to 41.0 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 41.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.6 to 42.8 |
| Counting (low) | – | 61.7% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.8 to 63.5 |
| Counting (high) | – | 60.8% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 59.5 to 62.2 |
| Identification (low) | – | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 80.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 81.3 |
| OCR (low) | – | 92.6% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.1 to 93.4 |
| OCR (high) | – | 93.5% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.1 to 93.8 |
| Data Extraction (low) | – | 84.9% ±2.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.5 to 87.6 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 87.6% ±1.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.6 to 89.7 |
| Reasoning (low) | – | 64.2% ±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.3 to 66.9 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 66.9% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.6 to 68.2 |
Gemma 3 4B vs Grok 4.7: Overview
Gemma 3 4B, released on March 12, 2025, is the mid-sized member of Google DeepMind’s open-weight Gemma 3 family. With about 4 billion parameters, it is multimodal—supporting text and image inputs and generating text outputs. Like the larger Gemma 3 models, it features a 128,000-token input context window with an output capacity of ~8,192 tokens, enabling it to handle long documents and mixed text–image reasoning tasks.
The 4B variant is designed as a balance between efficiency and capability: it offers multilingual support across 140+ languages, strong summarization and reasoning performance, and compatibility with moderate hardware. Inference can run with ~6.4 GB VRAM in BF16, or significantly less in quantized 8-bit (~4.4 GB) or 4-bit (~3.4 GB) modes, making it accessible to developers outside large-scale infrastructure. While it lags behind the 12B and 27B versions on the most complex reasoning and multimodal benchmarks, its lower compute footprint makes it ideal for research, prototyping, and practical deployment where efficiency matters.
Grok 4.7 is a proprietary model from SpaceXAI, released on September 21, 2026. It accepts text and images as input and returns text. It extends Grok 4.6 and is listed at the same API price.
Its Vision Evals scores are on the leaderboard. Running it in the Playground is not available yet, because the inference workflow is not ready.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gemma 3 4B has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.
Gemma 3 4B is released under Custom, while Grok 4.7 uses Proprietary. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.