MODEL PROOF
Gemma 4 26B A4B
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
Price under confirmation since 2026-11-04. Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values. · Serving precision differs between offers.
GLM 5.3 Flash · Δ score 38.8 points · 20% lower measured price · $0.102 / 1M tokens (Price under confirmation since Nov 5, 2026)
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a further stored option with these losses: no video input
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,434.2 ± 7.41 · 6,090 votes
- Context window
- 262.14K
- Maximum output
- 32.77K
- Input modalities
- image, text, video
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.060 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.330 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DekaLLM: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery, with at least 90% of the reference context and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (bf16), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Price under confirmation since 2026-11-04 Upstream lists another price for this model now, or other prices from its sellers. What is shown is the last we published; the new figures are published once a second day shows the same values.
Cheaper right now: $0.043/M at Darkbloom — precision not disclosed · context below the reference context It does not pass the like-for-like test, so it never sets a rank.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.060/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.330/M |
| Cached input | $0.040/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.
15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darkbloomdarkbloom Endpoint terms
| $0.024 | $0.100 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| DekaLLMdekallm/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.060 | $0.330 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.070 | $0.340 | fp8 | 99.93% |
| AkashMLakashml/fp4 Endpoint terms
| $0.070 | $0.240 | fp4 | 100.00% |
| Makoramakora Endpoint terms
| $0.080 | $0.100 | undeclared | 99.38% |
| PrimeIntellectprimeintellect/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.089 | $0.267 | bf16 | 99.93% |
| NextBitnextbit/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.090 | $0.300 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| Io Netio-net/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.090 | $0.310 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| CoreWeavecoreweave/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.100 | $0.300 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| Cloudflarecloudflare Endpoint terms
| $0.100 | $0.300 | undeclared | 100.00% |
| Venicevenice/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.130 | $0.400 | bf16 | 99.79% |
| Parasailparasail/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.130 | $0.400 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| Novitanovita/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.130 | $0.400 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| SiliconFlowsiliconflow/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.140 | $0.400 | fp8 | 93.26% |
| Googlegoogle-vertex/global Endpoint terms
| $0.150 | $0.600 | undeclared | 98.80% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1434.2default |
|---|---|
| LMArena row | gemma-4-26b-a4b |
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 262K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | image, text, video |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | Published record of 2026-11-02, under confirmation since 2026-11-04 |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-11-05 |
| Held | Price and provider offers kept at the published record of 2026-11-02 until a second day confirms the newer upstream value, or after 3 days until one day’s two readings agree. |
| 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?
$0.060/M in, $0.330/M out: the published record of 2026-11-02, under confirmation since 2026-11-04. 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 ?
GLM 5.3 Flash has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
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.
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