Gemma 4 31B uses about 2.5x fewer tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → than Qwen3.5 27B but trails on agentic tasks, which helps pick between open models for local or cost-sensitive agents.
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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
multimodal — A model that works with more than text — reading images, audio, or video, and sometimes generating them too.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
