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MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendormoonshotaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score74.148.4
Input Price$0.60/M$0.07/M
Output Price$3.50/M$0.23/M
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output235,929235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.242.4
ai_index_agentic48.818.1
ai_index_coding100.064.9
eqbench-56.3

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.12 and Kimi K2.7 Code costs $1.48, so Gemma 4 26B A4B is about 11.9 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 262,144 tokens at once, roughly 393 pages of text.

Only Gemma 4 26B A4B offers video input.

On our blended benchmark score Kimi K2.7 Code leads 74.1 to 48.4.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Kimi K2.7 Code scores higher on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemma 4 26B A4B on 3 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Long-Document Summarization).

Kimi K2.7 Code was released in June 2026 and Gemma 4 26B A4B in April 2026.

Pick Kimi K2.7 Code if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you need lower cost or video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 CodeGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 163 153
Code Review 155 150
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 151 148
Bug Fixing 165 156
Unit Test Generation 147 140
Code Documentation 135 136
Regex Writing 133 130
CI/CD Pipelines 138 133
Frontend Component Design 142 136
Data Analysis 162 148
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 147 143
ETL Scripting 144 141
JSON Extraction 147 142
Bulk Data Labeling 134 133
OCR / Document Parsing 142 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 142 138
Long-Document Summarization 147 147
Short-Form Summarization 130 129
Blog Post Writing 134 131

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

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