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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.918.3
Input PriceFree$0.10/M
Output PriceFree$0.15/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output32,76832,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.522.5
eqbench70.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.5-9B
SQL Generation 139 133
Code Review 140 130
Code Completion 131 129
Code Refactoring 141 131
Bug Fixing 144 134
Unit Test Generation 129 123
Code Documentation 134 128
Regex Writing 125 122
CI/CD Pipelines 125 119
Frontend Component Design 128 124
Data Analysis 132 127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 129
ETL Scripting 133 125
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 129
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 129
Long-Document Summarization 143 133
Short-Form Summarization 126 125
Blog Post Writing 127 121

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

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