Gemma 4 31B Takes 3rd Place on FoodTruck Bench, Beating GLM 5, Qwen 3.5 397B, and All Claude Sonnets

r/LocalLLaMA·high signal

Google's Gemma 4 31B dense model placed 3rd on the FoodTruck Bench, outperforming several frontier models including GLM 5, Qwen 3.5 397B (a 15x larger model), and every Claude Sonnet variant (560 upvotes, 96 comments). The result reinforces Gemma 4's position as the most capable open model at its parameter class, with practitioners noting that a 31B model beating a 397B MoE is a striking efficiency milestone.