Gemma 4 26B A4B specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Author: Google

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 2 · released Apr 2, 2026

Provider: Google
Release date: Apr 2, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 25.8B total, 4B active per token; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image, Video to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 262K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.04 in / $0.22 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 15 priced API routes · AWS Bedrock (5 regions) · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 52 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 26 GB at 8-bit, about 13 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 2 boards captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
53	Vision ArenaVision · as “Gemma 4 26B A4B”	Vision	1,242	85
84	Text ArenaChat · as “Gemma 4 26B A4B”	Chat	1,437	84

Versions and release history

8 versions in this line since Jul 13, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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