Gemma 4 26B A4B
by Google · google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it · #64 cheapest of 422 paid models
Prices updated Sep 19, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC · refreshed hourly
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...
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Pricing
Input
$0.09
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.30
per 1M tokens
Blended (3:1)
$0.143
3 input : 1 output
Cache read
$0.05
per 1M cached tokens
Cache write
—
per 1M tokens
Cache & batch economics
Effective prices for Gemma 4 26B A4B with prompt caching.
| Cache hit rate | Effective blended $/1M | Example request* | vs no cache |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0% | $0.143 | $0.00948 | — |
| 50% | $0.128 | $0.00748 | −21% |
| 90% | $0.115 | $0.00588 | −38% |
*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.
What a request costs
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Cost / request | Cost / 1K requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat message | 500 | 300 | $0.000135 | $0.135 |
| Document summary | 8,000 | 1,000 | $0.00102 | $1.02 |
| Codebase question (RAG) | 30,000 | 2,000 | $0.0033 | $3.30 |
| Long-context analysis | 150,000 | 5,000 | $0.015 | $15.00 |
Performance
Intelligence Index
16.7
AA composite quality
Coding Index
39.3
Math Index
—
Agentic Index
—
Output speed
0 tok/s
median
Time to first token
0s
median
Time to first answer
0s
after reasoning tokens
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 19.3% |
| SciCode | 40.0% |
| IFBench | 72.4% |
| AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning) | 65.7% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 13.6% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 39.0% |
| τ²-Bench (Telecom) | 43.6% |
| τ³-Bench Banking | 12.0% |
Specs
Context window
262K
tokens
Max output
236K
tokens
Input modalities
image, text, video
Tokenizer
Gemma