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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.935.5
Input PriceFree$0.20/M
Output PriceFree$1.56/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.537.8
eqbench70.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
SQL Generation 139 135
Code Review 140 133
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 141 133
Bug Fixing 144 137
Unit Test Generation 129 125
Code Documentation 134 129
Regex Writing 125 123
CI/CD Pipelines 125 121
Frontend Component Design 128 126
Data Analysis 132 129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 129
ETL Scripting 133 127
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 130
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 130
Long-Document Summarization 143 135
Short-Form Summarization 126 125
Blog Post Writing 127 123

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

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