Gemma 4 26B A4B

Google released 2026-04-03

$0.138 per million tokens, balanced

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

+25.7 on the capability index and 24% cheaper ($0.105/M against $0.138/M). What you lose:

  • no image, video input

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

The same model via free is 100% cheaper (free/M) — same weights, different latency.

Every price dimension

Input$0.070/M
Output$0.340/M

Independent scores

Intelligence26.1
Coding39.3
Agentic11
LMArena Elo1434.6default

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

Capability

Context window262K
Max output16K
Input modesimage, text, video
Tool useyes
Reasoningoptional

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-08-24
Quality dataverified

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

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