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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score48.454.9
Input PriceFree$0.26/M
Output PriceFree$2.08/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index42.453.3
ai_index_agentic18.134.2
ai_index_coding64.975.4
eqbench56.3-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) costs $0 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B costs $0.78, so Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) is free for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

On our blended benchmark score Qwen3.5-122B-A10B leads 54.9 to 48.4.

Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) scores higher on 12 (Code Review, Code Completion, Code Refactoring and others), Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on 7 (SQL Generation, Unit Test Generation, Frontend Component Design and others).

Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) was released in April 2026 and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B in February 2026.

Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) if you need lower cost; pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you need benchmark performance.

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: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
SQL Generation 153 155
Code Review 150 148
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 148 145
Bug Fixing 156 156
Unit Test Generation 140 140
Code Documentation 136 133
Regex Writing 130 129
CI/CD Pipelines 133 132
Frontend Component Design 136 137
Data Analysis 148 152
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 143 142
ETL Scripting 141 139
JSON Extraction 142 143
OCR / Document Parsing 138 139
Table Extraction from PDFs 138 139
Long-Document Summarization 147 143
Short-Form Summarization 129 128
Blog Post Writing 132 130

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

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