Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google · Multimodal · Released Apr 2026
Gemma 4 26B A4B is Google's 26-billion-parameter open-weight text model with a 262K token context window.
- Strengths
- As an open-weight model, it can be deployed locally or on custom infrastructure without API rate limits or vendor lock-in.
- Best for
- Applications requiring self-hosted deployment, private inference, or integration into systems where model weights must remain under your control.
- Limitations
- Open-weight models require managing your own infrastructure and inference serving; a smaller variant of Gemma 4 31B released the same month.
Input / 1M
$0.14
Output / 1M
$0.42
Cached input / 1M
$0.05
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 133.3% out increased 27.3%
- 90d
- in increased 133.3% out increased 27.3%
- 1y
- in increased 133.3% out increased 27.3%
- Since launch
- in increased 133.3% out increased 27.3%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul 2026 | $0.14 | $0.42 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 27 Jul 2026 | $0.14 | $0.42 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Jul 2026 | $0.12 | $0.35 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 19 Jul 2026 | $0.07 | $0.34 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Jul 2026 | $0.1 | $0.3 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 11 Jun 2026 | $0.06 | $0.33 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |