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Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
Vendorqwengoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score32.850.9
Input Price$0.32/MFree
Output Price$2.70/MFree
Context Window262,144262,144
Max Output262,14032,768
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index35.427.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 27BGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation 135 139
Code Review 133 140
Code Completion 129 131
Code Refactoring 133 141
Bug Fixing 137 144
Unit Test Generation 125 129
Code Documentation 129 134
Regex Writing 122 125
CI/CD Pipelines 121 125
Frontend Component Design 126 128
Data Analysis 129 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 129 133
ETL Scripting 127 133
JSON Extraction 131 132
Bulk Data Labeling 129 130
OCR / Document Parsing 130 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 130 131
Long-Document Summarization 135 143
Short-Form Summarization 125 126
Blog Post Writing 123 127

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

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