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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendorgoogleanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.969.7
Input PriceFree$3.00/M
Output PriceFree$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output32,768128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.549.6
aider_polyglot-61.3
eqbench70.080.0

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 139 154
Code Review 140 161
Code Completion 131 120
Code Refactoring 141 162
Bug Fixing 144 166
Unit Test Generation 129 144
Code Documentation 134 142
Regex Writing 125 129
CI/CD Pipelines 125 138
Frontend Component Design 128 137
Data Analysis 132 147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 145
ETL Scripting 133 150
JSON Extraction 132 125
Bulk Data Labeling 130 118
OCR / Document Parsing 131 140
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 140
Long-Document Summarization 143 161
Short-Form Summarization 126 118
Blog Post Writing 127 137

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

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