Intelligence
31.2
31
General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B is a budget-priced multimodal generalist from Google with partial runtime data, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / multimodal.
Benchmark blend
Dev workflow signal
Large
Budget tier
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B currently reads as a budget multimodal option with large context and a partially published runtime profile.
Decision Strip
Core buy-side signals stay in one pass. The rest of the page expands only after intelligence, speed, context, and price are clear.
General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedLatency data is partial.
UnavailableHow much prompt and task state can stay in view.
Above average$0.40 output / 1M
EfficientEditorial Profile
Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.
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 a fraction of the compute cost. Supports multimodal input including text, images, and video (up to 60s at 1fps). Features a 256K token context window, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and structured output support. Released under Apache 2.0.
Google multimodal profile
Long-context research / Multimodal with large context and partially published runtime.
Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.
Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.
Vision-capable routing opens up multimodal review and extraction workflows.
Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.
Latency data is incomplete, so interactive responsiveness is harder to rank confidently.
Image-grounded review, multimodal extraction, and UI audit workflows.
Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.
Benchmarks
Only benchmark categories with actual signal are shown. Secondary values stay as simple definitions instead of nested micro-cards.
Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.
Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.
Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.
Specs & Pricing
Specs stay neutral, pricing gets emphasis through values rather than extra containers. Raw provider internals remain in metadata at the end.
This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.
Metadata
Verification details remain available, but the page no longer forces them ahead of the editorial read.