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Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

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

Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendorqwengoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-50.9
Input Price$0.19/M$0.09/M
Output Price$1.12/M$0.30/M
Context Window1,000,000262,144
Max Output65,536235,929
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio--
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-27.5
eqbench-70.0

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.6 FlashGoogle: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation 133 139
Code Review 132 140
Code Completion 131 131
Code Refactoring 136 141
Bug Fixing 136 144
Unit Test Generation 124 129
Code Documentation 131 134
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 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
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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