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Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-06.

Qwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Vendorqwengoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-51.8
Input Price$0.30/MFree
Output Price$1.80/MFree
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,53632,768
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-42.4
ai_index_agentic-18.1
ai_index_coding-64.9
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation 133 154
Code Review 132 151
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 150
Bug Fixing 136 158
Unit Test Generation 124 141
Code Documentation 131 137
Regex Writing 119 130
CI/CD Pipelines 120 134
Frontend Component Design 122 137
Data Analysis 124 149
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 144
ETL Scripting 128 142
JSON Extraction 131 142
Bulk Data Labeling 129 133
OCR / Document Parsing 131 139
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 139
Long-Document Summarization 137 149
Short-Form Summarization 123 129
Blog Post Writing 121 132

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

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