Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google · Multimodal · Released Apr 2026
Google DeepMind's 26-billion-parameter open-weight model supporting text and image input with a 262K token context window.
- Strengths
- Offers a middle ground between inference speed and model capability as a smaller sibling to Gemma 4 31B, with efficient handling of longer documents within the 262K token window.
- Best for
- Applications requiring multimodal understanding (text and images) where parameter efficiency and reduced inference latency matter more than maximum reasoning depth.
- Limitations
- As an open-weight model, it typically trails Google's proprietary Gemini series in reasoning and instruction-following performance; the 26B parameter size places it below Gemma 4 31B for complex tasks.
Input / 1M
$0.09
Output / 1M
$0.3
Cached input / 1M
$0.05
Context window
262K
Price history
Input (solid)Output (dashed)
Price change
- 30d
- in increased 33.3% out increased 33.3%
- 90d
- in increased 28.6% out decreased 11.8%
- 1y
- in increased 50.0% out decreased 9.1%
- Since launch
- in increased 50.0% out decreased 9.1%
Snapshots
| Effective | Input | Output | Cached in | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 26 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 24 Oct 2026 | $0.0675 | $0.225 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 23 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 22 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 21 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 20 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 19 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 17 Oct 2026 | $0.0675 | $0.225 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 16 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 15 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 14 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 13 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 12 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 10 Oct 2026 | $0.0675 | $0.225 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 9 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 8 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 7 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 6 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 5 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 3 Oct 2026 | $0.0675 | $0.225 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 2 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 1 Oct 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 30 Sep 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 29 Sep 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Sep 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 25 Sep 2026 | $0.0675 | $0.225 | $0.0375 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 13 Sep 2026 | $0.09 | $0.3 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 10 Sep 2026 | $0.042 | $0.22 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 17 Aug 2026 | $0.07 | $0.34 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 10 Aug 2026 | $0.12 | $0.4 | $0.05 | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 29 Jul 2026 | $0.07 | $0.34 | — | Imported from OpenRouter | openrouter.ai |
| 28 Jul 2026 | $0.15 | $0.45 | $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 |