Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Analysis Summary
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) sits in the Emerging tier on our leaderboard, ranked #506 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.000 input and $0.000 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.
Editorial notes
Gemma 4 26B A4B free tier offers vision and tool use but has no benchmark data of its own; the paid variant benchmarks suggest moderate capability.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
Capabilities
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free
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| Provider | |
| Release Date | April 3, 2026 |
| Context Length | 262,144 tokens |
| Max Completion | 32,768 tokens |
| Status | Active |
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