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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

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

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Vendoropenaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score71.150.9
Input Price$2.00/MFree
Output Price$12.00/MFree
Context Window1,050,000262,144
Max Output128,00032,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.427.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT-5.6 TerraGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation 140 139
Code Review 145 140
Code Completion 118 131
Code Refactoring 147 141
Bug Fixing 149 144
Unit Test Generation 132 129
Code Documentation 135 134
Regex Writing 124 125
CI/CD Pipelines 128 125
Frontend Component Design 130 128
Data Analysis 134 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 137 133
JSON Extraction 121 132
Bulk Data Labeling 117 130
OCR / Document Parsing 134 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 131
Long-Document Summarization 147 143
Short-Form Summarization 116 126
Blog Post Writing 128 127

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

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