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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendorgoogleqwen
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.943.2
Input PriceFree$0.33/M
Output PriceFree$1.95/M
Context Window262,1441,000,000
Max Output32,76865,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.544.6
eqbench70.0-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation 139 139
Code Review 140 140
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 141 143
Bug Fixing 144 144
Code Documentation 134 135
Regex Writing 125 124
Frontend Component Design 128 127
Data Analysis 132 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 135
ETL Scripting 133 134
JSON Extraction 132 131
Bulk Data Labeling 130 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 133
Long-Document Summarization 143 144
Short-Form Summarization 126 125
Blog Post Writing 127 127

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

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