Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

by GoogleChat

Open Gemma instruction model for efficient chat and self-hosted deployments

Context
262K tokens
Max output
32,768 tokens
Parameters
25.8B total
Released
2026-04-02
Weights
Open
Licence
apache-2.0

FeedWeights on Hugging Face

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it · also seen as gemma4, @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it, gemma-4-26b-a4b, google.gemma-4-26b-a4b, +7 more

Specifications

Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.

Released
2026-04-02
Weights
Opennot gated
License
apache-2.0
Input
Text, Image
Output
Text
Context window
262,144 max across endpoints
Max output
32,768
Providers
24 + 13 gateways, not counted as providers
Epoch Capabilities Index
not evaluated
Direct price range
$0.042–$0.250 in · $0.180–$0.825 out per 1M tokens · 21 of 24 providers have a comparable price
More details
Last updated
2026-07-22
Knowledge cutoff
2025-04
Weights link
Hugging Face · google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
Parameters
25.8B total
Base model
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B

Capabilities

Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.

  • Tool calling
  • Parallel toolsunknown
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Image input
  • PDF input
  • Audio input
  • Audio outputunknown
  • Video input
  • Prompt caching
  • Web searchunknown
  • Computer useunknown
  • System messages
  • Assistant prefillunknown
  • Temperature
  • Streamingunknown
  • Attachments

Endpoints

One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.

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Price history

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No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.042 in / $0.22 out per 1M tokens at Darkbloom on every data refresh since then.

Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON

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