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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score56.150.9
Input Price$0.75/M$0.09/M
Output Price$3.75/M$0.30/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output65,536235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index56.127.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 140 139
Code Review 142 140
Code Completion 132 131
Code Refactoring 145 141
Bug Fixing 146 144
Unit Test Generation 130 129
Code Documentation 136 134
Regex Writing 124 125
CI/CD Pipelines 126 125
Frontend Component Design 128 128
Data Analysis 132 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 135 133
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 128 129
OCR / Document Parsing 133 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 131
Long-Document Summarization 146 143
Short-Form Summarization 125 126
Blog Post Writing 128 127

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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