vs
1:2
overall capability wins (1 ties across 4 scored). Gemma 4 26B leads overall.
- Arena0:1
- Pricing1:2
- Speed0:2
- Specs1:1
Verdict
Gemma 4 26B ranks higher on LMArena (+149 Elo); Gemma 4 26B offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K).
- Gemma 4 26B ranks higher on LMArena (+149 Elo)
- Gemma 4 26B offers ~31.3x larger context (256K vs 8K)
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Gemma 2 27B
- $0.34
- Gemma 4 26B
- $0.30
Gemma 4 26B is about 1.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Family
Gemma
Gemma
License
Gemma
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Jun 27, 2024
Apr 8, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Groq / Together (ref.)
Google AI / self-host
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
8K
256K
Max output
8K
8K
Parameters
27B
26B (3.8B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.27
$0.15
Output $/1M
$0.27
$0.60
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.27
$0.26
Speed
tok/s
80
95
TTFT (s)
0.35
0.28
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
82.6
GPQA Diamond
—
82.3
Humanity's Last Exam
—
8.7
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
77.1
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
42.8
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
1,362
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,289
1,438
| Metric | Gemma 2 27B | Gemma 4 26B | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | — | ||
| Family | Gemma | Gemma | — |
| License | Gemma | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jun 27, 2024 | Apr 8, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Groq / Together (ref.) | Google AI / self-host | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 256K | B +248K |
| Max output | 8K | 8K | tie |
| Parameters | 27B | 26B (3.8B act.) | A +1.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.27 | $0.15 | B +$0.12 |
| Output $/1M | $0.27 | $0.60 | A +$0.33 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.27 | $0.26 | B +$0.008 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 80 | 95 | B +15 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.35 | 0.28 | B +0.07 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 82.6 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 82.3 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 8.7 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 77.1 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 42.8 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,362 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,289 | 1,438 | B +149 Elo |
Gemma 2 27B
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 27B
- Price
- $0.27 / $0.27
- Speed
- 80 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Gemma
Google's open 27B instruct model — strong small-model quality before Gemma 3 / 4.
Gemma 4 26B
- Context
- 256K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 26B (3.8B act.)
- Price
- $0.15 / $0.60
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.28s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Open Gemma 4 mid-size instruct model available via Google Cloud Agent Platform and self-host.
Benchmark charts
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