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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

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

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation	139	154
Code Review	140	161
Code Completion	131	120
Code Refactoring	141	162
Bug Fixing	144	166
Unit Test Generation	129	144
Code Documentation	134	142
Regex Writing	125	129
CI/CD Pipelines	125	138
Frontend Component Design	128	137
Data Analysis	132	147
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	145
ETL Scripting	133	150
JSON Extraction	131	125
Bulk Data Labeling	129	118
OCR / Document Parsing	131	140
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	140
Long-Document Summarization	143	161
Short-Form Summarization	126	118
Blog Post Writing	127	137

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