Open-source AI has crossed an important line.
The question is no longer whether open models are good enough to power serious products. The question is how quickly teams can deploy them privately, reliably, and cost-effectively.
That is exactly why we are bringing Gemma 4 31B IT to HexGrid.cloud.
Gemma 4 31B IT is Google DeepMind’s 30.7B-parameter instruction-tuned dense model from the Gemma 4 family. It is designed for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, long-context understanding, multimodal inputs, and production assistant use cases.
Why this model matters
Gemma 4 31B IT matters because it gives developers a powerful open model at a practical deployment size.
Google’s launch post describes the larger Gemma 4 models as delivering state-of-the-art performance for their size, with the 31B model ranking as the #3 open model on the Arena AI text leaderboard at launch.
For developers, that matters because model quality is only part of the equation.
Gemma 4 31B IT supports:
Text and image input
Text output
Reasoning and configurable thinking modes
Coding tasks
Function calling
Agentic workflows
Long-context prompts up to 256K tokens
Multilingual use across 140+ languages
Native system-role support
Multimodal understanding for document, chart, UI, OCR, and image-heavy workflows
This makes Gemma 4 31B IT a strong choice for teams building production AI assistants, RAG systems, coding tools, enterprise chat, multimodal applications, and private open-source AI workflows.
Gemma 4 31B IT benchmark overview
Google’s official Gemma 4 benchmark table shows Gemma 4 31B IT leading the Gemma 4 family across major reasoning, coding, multilingual, multimodal, and long-context benchmarks.
Model Snapshot
Benchmarks
Gemma 4 31B IT leads the Gemma 4 family on AIME 2026, LiveCodeBench v6, Codeforces ELO, GPQA Diamond, and BigBench Extra Hard in Google’s official benchmark table.
What this means for developers
For developers, these numbers translate into practical product capabilities.
Gemma 4 31B IT is a strong candidate when your application needs to:
solve multi-step reasoning problems,
generate and debug code,
assist with technical Q&A,
analyze scientific or domain-heavy questions,
power coding assistants,
support math-heavy workflows,
and handle complex prompts without immediately jumping to a larger closed model.
If your product needs more than simple chat, Gemma 4 31B IT gives you a capable open model that can be deployed privately.
Gemma 4 31B IT shows strong agentic benchmark performance, including the best Tau2 average and HLE scores among the Gemma variants reported in Google’s official table.
What this means
Agentic workflows are different from normal chat.
A good agent model needs to:
understand the task,
maintain state across steps,
decide when to use tools,
produce structured outputs,
follow system instructions,
and recover when a plan needs adjustment.
Gemma 4 31B IT is useful for:
AI workflow agents,
research assistants,
customer support automation,
internal operations assistants,
coding agents,
data analysis agents,
RAG agents with tools,
and applications that combine model reasoning with API calls.
Instruction following and chat quality
A production assistant needs more than raw benchmark strength.
It needs to follow instructions, respect structure, handle multi-turn conversations, and produce useful responses consistently.
Gemma 4 introduces native support for the standard system, user, and assistant roles. It also supports configurable thinking behavior through chat template controls.
Benchmark chart — instruction following and chat quality
Gemma 4 31B IT performs strongly on broad knowledge, multilingual understanding, difficult instruction-style tasks, and Arena AI text ranking.
A model can look good on math and code but still fail as a user-facing assistant if it cannot follow instructions or maintain response quality.
Gemma 4 31B IT is well suited for:
customer-facing AI assistants,
enterprise chatbots,
internal knowledge copilots,
multilingual assistants,
structured output generation,
writing and summarization,
and applications that need controlled system prompts.
For teams replacing closed APIs with open models, Gemma 4 31B IT is a strong candidate because it combines quality with deployability.
Long context: built for large inputs
Many production AI applications are not short-prompt workflows.
They involve long documents, retrieved passages, codebases, product manuals, financial reports, legal agreements, support histories, or multi-step agent memory.
Gemma 4 31B IT supports a 256K-token context window.
Google’s benchmark table includes MRCR v2 8 needle at 128K context, where Gemma 4 31B IT leads the reported Gemma models.
Benchmark chart — long-context performance
Gemma 4 31B IT leads the reported Gemma variants on MRCR v2 8 needle 128K average, showing stronger long-context retrieval behavior in Google’s official benchmark table.
Long context is valuable when your product needs to reason over large inputs without aggressively compressing everything first.
Gemma 4 31B IT is useful for:
long-document Q&A,
research-paper analysis,
contract review,
codebase understanding,
knowledge-base assistants,
enterprise RAG,
financial and compliance workflows,
support-ticket history analysis,
and multimodal document processing.
Why deploy this model on HexGrid.cloud?
You can download open model weights yourself. You can rent a GPU yourself. You can configure vLLM yourself.
But production inference is more than running a model once.
You need a private API, authentication, GPU scheduling, storage, logs, billing visibility, runtime configuration, and a reliable way to keep the model available.
HexGrid.cloud makes that path simple.
1. Dedicated GPU deployments
Your model runs on isolated GPU capacity.
No shared inference pool. No noisy-neighbor contention. No unpredictable shared runtime behavior.
This is especially useful for production workloads where latency, privacy, and reliability matter.
2. OpenAI-compatible API
Gemma 4 31B IT on HexGrid.cloud is exposed through an OpenAI-compatible interface.
That means your application can use familiar endpoints like:
/v1/chat/completions
A typical request looks like this:
curl https://api.hexgrid.cloud/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HEXGRID_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "gemma-4-31b-it",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Explain how Gemma 4 31B helps with long-context RAG."
}
]
}'
You can keep your existing app patterns while moving to private open-model inference.
3. Private runtime
HexGrid.cloud is built for private deployments.
Your model runs behind a private HTTPS endpoint with bearer-token authentication. Your traffic goes through a production API layer, and your model stays on dedicated GPU infrastructure.
4. Observability
You need to know what is happening after the endpoint goes live.
HexGrid.cloud gives teams visibility into endpoint status, request volume, GPU usage, logs, and billing from a single deployment view.
5. Transparent billing
Open-source inference should not come with hidden inference markup.
HexGrid.cloud is designed around transparent GPU pricing and practical deployment choices, helping teams choose the right capacity for the workload.
Final thoughts
Gemma 4 31B IT is one of the most practical open models for teams that want strong intelligence without giving up deployment control.
It combines:
30.7B dense parameters,
strong reasoning and coding scores,
competitive agentic benchmark performance,
256K-token context support,
text and image input,
native function calling,
system-role support,
multilingual coverage,
quantized deployment options,
and production-friendly deployment characteristics.
If you are building private AI assistants, enterprise RAG, coding tools, multimodal agents, or open-source model infrastructure, Gemma 4 31B IT is ready to deploy on HexGrid.cloud.
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[^1]: Google AI for Developers — Gemma 4 model card: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core/model\_card\_4
[^2]: Google AI for Developers — Gemma 4 model overview: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/core
[^3]: Google Blog — Gemma 4: Our most capable open models to date: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemma-4/
[^4]: Google DeepMind — Gemma 4 model page: https://deepmind.google/models/gemma/gemma-4/
[^5]: Hugging Face — google/gemma-4-31B-it: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it
[^6]: NVIDIA NIM — google/gemma-4-31b-it model card: https://build.nvidia.com/google/gemma-4-31b-it/modelcard
[^7]: NVIDIA Hugging Face — nvidia/Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4
[^8]: HexGrid.cloud homepage: https://hexgrid.cloud/
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