Google: Gemma 3n 4B (free)
Google's Gemma 3n 4B (free) is a very small, zero-cost model with limited benchmark performance across all dimensions. It is suitable only for the most basic experimentation and is not recommended for business use.
Assessment date: April 4, 2026
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Performance Profile
Gemma 3n E4B-it is optimized for efficient execution on mobile and low-resource devices, such as phones, laptops, and tablets. It supports multimodal inputs—including text, visual data, and audio—enabling diverse tasks such as text generation, speech recognition, translation, and image analysis. Leveraging innovations like Per-Layer Embedding (PLE) caching and the MatFormer architecture, Gemma 3n dynamically manages memory usage and computational load by selectively activating model parameters, significantly reducing runtime resource requirements. This model supports a wide linguistic range (trained in over 140 languages) and features a flexible 32K token context window. Gemma 3n can selectively load parameters, optimizing memory and computational efficiency based on the task or device capabilities, making it well-suited for privacy-focused, offline-capable applications and on-device AI solutions. Read more in the blog post
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Parameters | 4B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
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Model Information
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External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: April 4, 2026 8:54 pm