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This page keeps its stated price basis and workload controls. MODEL PROOF # Gemma 4 26B A4B Google · 03 Apr 2026 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic FRONTIER ## Nothing is both better and cheaper under this workload. **$0.127** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out Serving precision differs between offers. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,433.9 ± 7.42 · 6,081 votes Context window 262.14K Maximum output 235.93K Input modalities image, text, video Output modalities text Published input price $0.069 / 1M tokens Published output price $0.300 / 1M tokens Pricing kind fixed Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. Price from Io Net: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (bf16), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known. Cheaper right now: $0.059 in · $0.255 out per million tokens at Io Net, a promotion of 15%. The price on this page is Io Net’s standard rate: the ranking uses the standard rate, never a promotion. Every price dimension · USD per million tokens | Input | $0.069 /M | | --- | --- | | Output | $0.300 /M | | Cached input | $0.029 /M | | Cache write | Unknown /M | | Cache write 1h | Unknown /M | | Reasoning | Unknown /M | ### Who sells it The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs. Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.060/M from DekaLLM. 13 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test. | Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Seller Darkbloom darkbloom Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.021 Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 32,768 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 100.00% | Input $0.042 | Output $0.220 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.99% | | Seller Io Net io-net/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.025 Context limit 262,142 tokens Output limit 235,927 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount 15% · already included in these rates Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.94% | Input $0.059 | Output $0.255 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.75% | | Seller DekaLLM dekallm/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.040 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.82% | Input $0.060 | Output $0.330 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.81% | | Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.80% | Input $0.070 | Output $0.340 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.77% | | Seller Makora makora Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.032 Context limit 256,000 tokens Output limit 128,000 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.83% | Input $0.080 | Output $0.320 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 98.52% | | Seller NextBit nextbit/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.75% | Input $0.090 | Output $0.300 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.93% | | Seller CoreWeave coreweave/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.99% | Input $0.100 | Output $0.300 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.97% | | Seller Cloudflare cloudflare Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 256,000 tokens Output limit 230,400 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.89% | Input $0.100 | Output $0.300 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 99.86% | | Seller Venice venice/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 256,000 tokens Output limit 8,192 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.18% | Input $0.130 | Output $0.400 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 98.84% | | Seller Parasail parasail/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.27% | Input $0.130 | Output $0.400 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.15% | | Seller Novita novita/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 131,072 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.85% | Input $0.130 | Output $0.400 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.81% | | Seller SiliconFlow siliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.050 Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 96.52% | Input $0.140 | Output $0.400 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 95.41% | | Seller Google google-vertex/global Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 262,144 tokens Output limit 235,929 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.47% | Input $0.150 | Output $0.600 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) 97.49% | ### Independent scores | LMArena Elo | 1433.9 default | | --- | --- | LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero. ### Capability | Context window | 262K | | --- | --- | | Max output | 235K | | Input modes | image, text, video | | Tool use | yes | | Reasoning | optional | | Open weights | Unknown | ### Provenance | Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) | | --- | --- | | Fetched | 2026-10-06 | | Quality data | verified | 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... ## Questions this page answers What does Gemma 4 26B A4B cost? $0.069/M in, $0.300/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Does Gemma 4 26B A4B have an independent quality score? Gemma 4 26B A4B has an LMArena score in this catalogue. What beats Gemma 4 26B A4B ? Nothing is both better and cheaper than Gemma 4 26B A4B . Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemma 4 26B A4B ? No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated. Is the cheapest Gemma 4 26B A4B endpoint the same product? Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.060/M from DekaLLM. MODEL MONUMENT ## Save or share this proof Download proof card · 1200 × 630 Preview and more sharing options Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B . Balanced workload. Frontier. Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026. 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