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OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

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

OpenAI: GPT Mini Latest Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendor~openaigoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-48.4
Input Price$0.75/M$0.07/M
Output Price$4.50/M$0.23/M
Context Window400,000262,144
Max Output128,000235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-42.4
ai_index_agentic-18.1
ai_index_coding-64.9
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 GPT Mini Latest costs $1.88, so Gemma 4 26B A4B is about 15.2 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT Mini Latest reads up to 400,000 tokens at once, roughly 600 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Gemma 4 26B A4B .

Only Gemma 4 26B A4B offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemma 4 26B A4B on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GPT Mini Latest if you need long documents; pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you need lower cost, video input or the stronger all-round task scores.

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?

TaskOpenAI: GPT Mini LatestGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 133 153
Code Review 132 150
Code Completion 130 131
Code Refactoring 136 148
Bug Fixing 136 156
Unit Test Generation 124 140
Code Documentation 130 136
Regex Writing 119 130
CI/CD Pipelines 120 133
Frontend Component Design 122 136
Data Analysis 124 148
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 143
ETL Scripting 128 141
JSON Extraction 130 142
Bulk Data Labeling 128 133
OCR / Document Parsing 131 138
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 138
Long-Document Summarization 137 147
Short-Form Summarization 123 129
Blog Post Writing 121 131

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

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