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Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B vs OpenAI: GPT-5.4

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

Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B OpenAI: GPT-5.4
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score50.980.9
Input Price$0.09/M$2.50/M
Output Price$0.30/M$15.00/M
Context Window262,1441,050,000
Max Output235,929128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index27.564.3
eqbench70.082.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B OpenAI: GPT-5.4
SQL Generation 139 145
Code Review 140 154
Code Completion 131 120
Code Refactoring 141 157
Bug Fixing 144 158
Unit Test Generation 129 137
Code Documentation 134 140
Regex Writing 125 126
CI/CD Pipelines 125 133
Frontend Component Design 128 133
Data Analysis 132 138
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 139
ETL Scripting 133 145
JSON Extraction 131 120
Bulk Data Labeling 129 116
OCR / Document Parsing 131 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 136
Long-Document Summarization 143 157
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 127 133

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

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