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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Mistral: Mistral Small 4

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Mistral: Mistral Small 4
Vendorgooglemistralai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.93.8
Input PriceFree$0.15/M
Output PriceFree$0.60/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,768209,715
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.59.6
eqbench70.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Mistral: Mistral Small 4
SQL Generation 139 132
Code Review 140 128
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 141 129
Bug Fixing 144 132
Unit Test Generation 129 122
Code Documentation 134 127
Regex Writing 125 120
CI/CD Pipelines 125 118
Frontend Component Design 128 123
Data Analysis 132 125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 128
ETL Scripting 133 123
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 143 131
Short-Form Summarization 126 124
Blog Post Writing 127 120

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

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