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Gemma 4 26B-A4B: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Gemma 4 26B-A4B is a language model from Google, released in April 2026, with multimodal input, a 262K-token context window, and pricing from $0.070/M input and $0.340/M output.

Gemma 4 26B-A4B is Google DeepMind's Mixture-of-Experts multimodal model with 26 billion total parameters and 3.8 billion activated parameters per token, with a 256K context window. Ranks #6 among open models on Arena AI, outcompeting

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Gemma 4 26B-A4B benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Gemma 4 26B-A4B across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Gemma 4 26B-A4B holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Gemma 4 26B-A4B Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Gemma 4 26B-A4B pricing

Providers

Gemma 4 26B-A4B starts at $0.0700 per million input tokens and $0.340 per million output tokens via DeepInfra. See all 2 providers below with their per-token pricing, latency, throughput, and modality support.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.0700—$0.340262.1K/262.1K
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Novita logoNovita
$0.130—$0.400262.1K/131.1K
2.59
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

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Gemma 4 26B-A4B model size

Gemma 4 26B-A4B has 25.2 billion parameters. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

Parameters
25.2BMoE
Medium (10–30B)
25.2B
1B7B70B405B

Gemma 4 26B-A4B context window

Input and output token limits for Gemma 4 26B-A4B, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

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262Ktokens
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Gemma 4 26B-A4B latency

Gemma 4 26B-A4B time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Provider operational metrics

Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage

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Gemma 4 26B-A4B examples

Recent arena outputs from Gemma 4 26B-A4B, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

Gemma 4 26B-A4B license

Gemma 4 26B-A4B is released under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial use, has 25.2B parameters, has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025.

License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use allowed
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25.2B
Knowledge cutoff
January 2025

Apache License 2.0 - allows commercial use

Gemma 4 26B-A4B resources

Official sources for Gemma 4 26B-A4B: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post, model weights.

Gemma 4 26B-A4B vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Gemma 4 26B-A4B are Kimi K2 0905, LongCat-Flash-Thinking, LongCat-Flash-Chat. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Models ranked just above and below Gemma 4 26B-A4B by LLM Stats score.

 

Kimi K2 0905

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LongCat-Flash-Thinking

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LongCat-Flash-Chat

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Gemini 2.5 Pro

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Qwen3.5-9B

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Seed 1.8

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about Gemma 4 26B-A4B.

When was Gemma 4 26B-A4B released?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B was released on April 2, 2026 by Google. This is the official Gemma 4 26B-A4B release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does Gemma 4 26B-A4B cost?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B pricing starts at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.34 per million output tokens via DeepInfra, the lowest price among tracked providers.

How big is Gemma 4 26B-A4B?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B has 25.2 billion parameters. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Gemma 4 26B-A4B?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B was created by Google.

What is the license for Gemma 4 26B-A4B?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B is released under the Apache 2.0 license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for Gemma 4 26B-A4B?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B has a knowledge cutoff of January 2025, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is Gemma 4 26B-A4B multimodal?

Yes, Gemma 4 26B-A4B is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is Gemma 4 26B-A4B latency?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B p95 time to first token is 2.59 seconds via Novita over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and model workloads.

Where can I use Gemma 4 26B-A4B?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B is available through 2 providers including DeepInfra, Novita.

Where is the Gemma 4 26B-A4B paper or technical report?

Gemma 4 26B-A4B has a paper or technical report available at https://huggingface.co/blog/gemma4. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare Gemma 4 26B-A4B against?

Common Gemma 4 26B-A4B comparisons include Gemma 4 26B-A4B vs Kimi K2 0905, Gemma 4 26B-A4B vs LongCat-Flash-Thinking, Gemma 4 26B-A4B vs LongCat-Flash-Chat. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.