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Google: Gemini Pro Latest vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

Google: Gemini Pro Latest Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendor~googlegoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-48.4
Input Price$2.00/M$0.07/M
Output Price$10.00/M$0.23/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-42.4
ai_index_agentic-18.1
ai_index_coding-64.9
eqbench-56.3

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.12 and Gemini Pro Latest costs $4.50, so Gemma 4 26B A4B is about 36.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Gemini Pro Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Gemma 4 26B A4B .

Only Gemini Pro Latest offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemma 4 26B A4B on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Gemini Pro Latest if you need long documents or audio input; pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini Pro LatestGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 132 153
Code Review 132 150
Code Completion 117 131
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 156
Unit Test Generation 124 140
Code Documentation 129 136
Regex Writing 117 130
CI/CD Pipelines 120 133
Frontend Component Design 122 136
Data Analysis 124 148
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 132 143
ETL Scripting 128 141
JSON Extraction 121 142
Bulk Data Labeling 118 133
OCR / Document Parsing 131 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 138
Long-Document Summarization 136 147
Short-Form Summarization 113 129
Blog Post Writing 120 131

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

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