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Gemma 4 26B A4B

  • Released
  • Open weights
  • Apache 2.0
Intelligence Index

Reasoning setting

16.7
Estimated · Artificial Analysis v4.3.2
API price from
$0.06 in / $0.33 out / 1M tokOpenRouter · DekaLLM · BF16
Context window
256K tok

Performance profile

ReasoningRank #54 of 107
79.2%
GPQA Diamond
CodingRank #64 of 94
40.0%
SciCode

Capabilities

Context window

Modalities

Measured setting

Integration

Reasoning trade-offs

Source (opens in a new tab)
Intelligence Index v4.3.2
ReasoningEstimated
Intelligence Index
16.7

Pricing & access

API route
OpenRouter · DekaLLM · BF16API
Tier & contextStandard

USD per 1M tokens

Input
$0.06
Output
$0.33
Cached input
$0.04

Run locally

GGUF
Context
Estimated memory

~19.4 GiB

RAM + VRAM

Estimate assumptions

One text chat at the selected context, with a 16-bit cache and app allowance. Operating system and image processing are extra; optimized caches can use less.

24 GiB RAMwithout GPU offload

Memory budgetOne text chat
Weights
15.6 GiB
Context cache
1.7 GiB16-bit cache
App allowance
2 GiB
Disk space
~25 GBIncludes image file
Get GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Set up in Ollama · Q4_K_M · 8K context

Save the following as Modelfile. The context matches the estimate above.

FROM hf.co/lmstudio-community/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M
PARAMETER num_ctx 8192

Then run these commands in your terminal:

ollama create llmcurrent-local -f Modelfile
ollama run llmcurrent-local

Ollama import instructions (opens in a new tab) · For LM Studio or Jan, open the app’s model search, enter lmstudio-community/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF, choose Q4_K_M, and set context to 8,192 tokens in the app’s model settings. Software links above open each app’s setup guide.

Images need extra memoryvLLM setup (opens in a new tab)

Benchmarks

Full leaderboardSource (opens in a new tab)

Humanity’s Last Exam

Frontier reasoning

Gemma 4 26B A4B · Reasoning#67 of 126

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5Max61.4%
  2. 2Claude Fable 5.1Max59.1%
  3. 3Gemini 4 ArgonHigh57.1%
  4. 64o3Reasoning20.1%
  5. 65GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026)Reasoning19.9%
  6. 66gpt-oss-120bHigh19.6%
  7. 67Gemma 4 26B A4BReasoning19.3%
  8. 68Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteHigh18.8%
  9. 69Quasar 438BMax18.7%
  10. 70K-EXAONE 2.0 0803Reasoning18.6%

Peers use their best measured result on this benchmark.