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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest 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 Mini Latest Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Vendor~openaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-50.9
Input Price$0.75/MFree
Output Price$4.50/MFree
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,00032,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-27.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 132 140
Code Completion 130 131
Code Refactoring 136 141
Bug Fixing 136 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 130 134
Regex Writing 119 125
CI/CD Pipelines 120 125
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 124 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
ETL Scripting 128 133
JSON Extraction 130 132
Bulk Data Labeling 128 130
OCR / Document Parsing 131 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 131
Long-Document Summarization 137 143
Short-Form Summarization 123 126
Blog Post Writing 121 127

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

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