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Google's Q4_0 QAT GGUF repository had 949,524 and its w4a16 build 322,749 in 30 days (https://huggingface.co/api/models/google/gemma-4-E4B-it)", "Ollama's library has it as gemma4:e4b, and the gemma4 family page showed 27.4M downloads on 21 October 2026 (https://ollama.com/library/gemma4)", "The card's table gives 69.4% on MMLU Pro, 52.0% on LiveCodeBench v6, 42.2% on Tau2 (average over 3), 25.4% on MRCR v2 8-needle at 128K, 58.6% on GPQA Diamond. These are Google's numbers, not our measurement (https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it)", "Google publishes a draft model for speculative decoding, google/gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant, and Ollama's gemma4:e4b bundles one (https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/)", "Google's Gemini API hosts only the 26B A4B and 31B sizes; its page says the smaller sizes are not hosted (https://gemma.ai/deployment/gemini-api/)", "Google also publishes mobile builds (wNa8o8, with 2-bit decoding layers) and gives 4.5 GB at Q4_0 to load the mobile version in LiteRT-LM (https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/)" ], "area": "models", "details": [ { "label": "Surface graded", "value": "The open weights at huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it and Google's QAT builds, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template and tokenizer config, Google's Gemma documentation at gemma.ai and the runtimes' own code on 21 October 2026. Nothing was downloaded or run. There's no hosted version to grade" }, { "label": "Model", "value": "A dense decoder with per-layer embeddings, 4.5B effective parameters and 8B with the embedding tables, 42 layers, sliding-window attention of 512 tokens interleaved with global layers, a vision encoder of about 150M and an audio encoder of about 300M. Text, images, video as frames and audio up to 30 seconds in, text out. 7,996,156,490 parameters in the files per Hugging Face's metadata" }, { "label": "Files", "value": "One safetensors file in BF16 (16.02 GB with the tokenizer) with chat_template.jinja, tokenizer_config.json carrying a response schema and template for parsing, and generation_config.json. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for both LFS files and a git hash for every file. Google's QAT builds sit in their own repositories (Q4_0 GGUF, w4a16 compressed tensors, two mobile builds, and an unquantised QAT checkpoint for conversion)" }, { "label": "Licence", "value": "Apache 2.0, named in the card's metadata and linked to Google's Gemma 4 licence page, which redirects to Google's Apache 2.0 page (last updated 1 April 2026). The repository has no LICENSE file. gemma.ai still lists the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy under Legal, which neither the card nor the licence page applies to Gemma 4" }, { "label": "Runtimes", "value": "Model code in Transformers (gemma4, from 5.5.0), vLLM 0.32.0 (gemma4_mm, with the gemma4 tool and reasoning parsers), SGLang 0.5.22 (gemma4_mm), mlx-lm and mlx-vlm (gemma4), llama.cpp (the gemma4 architecture, with GEMMA4V and GEMMA4A projectors for images and audio), gemma4:e4b in Ollama's library and google/gemma-4-e4b in LM Studio's catalogue. Google's own JAX library, google-deepmind/gemma, has a Gemma4_E4B class. Google's QAT page routes the GGUF to llama.cpp, LM Studio and Ollama and the w4a16 build to vLLM and SGLang" }, { "label": "Context", "value": "131,072 tokens native (max_position_embeddings in config.json, 128K on the card). Ollama's default context is smaller, so raise num_ctx" }, { "label": "Tools and reasoning", "value": "Tools are declared in `\u003c|tool\u003edeclaration:...\u003ctool|\u003e` blocks and calls come back as `\u003c|tool_call\u003ecall:name{...}\u003ctool_call|\u003e`, documented on gemma.ai with a full call-and-response example that uses gemma-4-E2B-it. Transformers parses them with `processor.parse_response` and the response schema in tokenizer_config.json, and vLLM and SGLang ship a gemma4 tool parser. Thinking is off by default, `enable_thinking=True` or `\u003c|think|\u003e` at the start of the system prompt turns it on, and reasoning comes back in `\u003c|channel\u003ethought ... \u003cchannel|\u003e`. With thinking off this size emits no thought block at all, unlike the 12B, 26B A4B and 31B. No thinking budget is documented" }, { "label": "Hardware", "value": "Google states 17.9 GB at BF16, 8.9 GB at SFP8, 4.5 GB at Q4_0, 2.5 GB for the mobile build and 2.2 GB for the mobile build text only to load the weights, with 20% overhead and the KV cache on top" }, { "label": "Training data", "value": "A general description on the card, web documents in over 140 languages, code, mathematics, images and audio, with a January 2025 cut-off and CSAM, sensitive-data and quality filtering. No mix, sizes or dataset list" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://gemma.ai/models/releases/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The registrant and registration date are carried from the gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it facts read earlier on 21 October 2026, since rdap.org rate-limited our request this time and wasn't retried.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "gemma.ai keeps a dated releases page for the Gemma family (this size on 31 March 2026). The Hugging Face commit history says what each change fixed.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. Google's company-wide security.txt at google.com points to its vulnerability reward programme." ], "score": 68, "checks": [ { "check": "Legal entity named", "value": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "points": 20, "max": 20, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Domain age", "value": "gemma.ai, registered 2017-12-16 (8 years)", "points": 11, "max": 15, "state": "part" }, { "check": "Endpoint on the vendor's domain", "value": "no hosted endpoint", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Terms of service", "value": "nothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "Privacy policy", "value": "nothing hosted, not scored", "points": 0, "max": 0, "state": "na" }, { "check": "Status page", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" }, { "check": "Changelog", "value": "published", "points": 10, "max": 10, "state": "ok" }, { "check": "security.txt", "value": "not found", "points": 0, "max": 10, "state": "no" } ] }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e4b-it.json" } }