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Gemma 4 26B A4B

Google · 26B · A4B · open weights

Strongest in Factual grounding (#14 of 104), weakest in Agents (#237 of 298). Above par in 6 of 13 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5 and ahead of MiniMax M3 and Kimi K2.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Human preference60.2#85/354
Human preference60.2#85/354
Knowledge49.5#119/197
Document parsing49.5#50/83
Safety50.4#165/327
Factual grounding62#14/104
Secure code61#55/268
Toxicity avoidance54.7#110/266
Harm refusal47.6#195/290
Fairness44#210/290
Jailbreak resistance39.2#217/266
Agents43.7#237/298
Knowledge work40#152/208

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Gemma 4 26B A4B, left for the other.

DeepSeek V3won 11 · lost 1
Command R+won 9 · lost 1
Grok 3won 9 · lost 1
OLMo 7B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
SmolLM2 1.7B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Gemma 7B ITwon 7 · lost 1
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 7 · lost 1
DBRX Instructwon 7 · lost 1
GPT-3.5 Turbowon 7 · lost 1
QwQ 32Bwon 7 · lost 1
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 7 · lost 1
Command Awon 9 · lost 2
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 9 · lost 2
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 8 · lost 2
Magistral Small 1.2won 7 · lost 2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 7 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3.1won 7 · lost 2
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 2B ITwon 6 · lost 2
Zephyr 7B Betawon 6 · lost 2
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 6 · lost 2
Mixtral 8x7B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 6 · lost 2
Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Magistral Mediumwon 6 · lost 2
DeepSeek R1won 9 · lost 3
Mercury 2won 8 · lost 3
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 3
Grok 4won 7 · lost 3
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 3
Qwen3 8Bwon 6 · lost 3
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 6 · lost 3
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 3
GLM-4.5won 6 · lost 3
Mistral Large 4won 6 · lost 3
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 8 · lost 4
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 8 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.2won 8 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 8 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 8 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 nanowon 7 · lost 4
O3 Miniwon 7 · lost 4
Grok Build 0.1won 5 · lost 3
Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 5 · lost 3
Gemma 2 2B ITwon 5 · lost 3
Mixtral 8x22B Instructwon 5 · lost 3
Gemma 2 9B ITwon 5 · lost 3
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 5 · lost 3
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Litewon 5 · lost 3
GPT-4won 6 · lost 4
Gemma 3 4B ITwon 6 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 4
Amazon Nova Microwon 5 · lost 4
Amazon Nova Litewon 5 · lost 4
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 5 · lost 4
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 5 · lost 4
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 4
GPT-4o miniwon 6 · lost 5
GPT OSS 20Bwon 6 · lost 5
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 6 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 5
Kimi K2won 6 · lost 5
MiniMax M3won 6 · lost 5
Llama 2 13B Chatwon 4 · lost 4
Phi-3 Mini 4K Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 2 70B Chatwon 4 · lost 4
Starling LM 7B Betawon 4 · lost 4
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Claude 3 Haikuwon 4 · lost 4
Amazon Nova 2 Litewon 4 · lost 4
GPT-5.4 nanowon 4 · lost 4
Kimi K2.6won 6 · lost 6
GPT-5 miniwon 6 · lost 7
Claude Haiku 4.5won 6 · lost 7
Gemma 4 31Bwon 6 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 5 · lost 6
GPT-4owon 5 · lost 6
GPT-5 nanowon 5 · lost 6
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 5 · lost 6
GPT-4.1 miniwon 5 · lost 6
O4 Miniwon 5 · lost 6
GPT-4.1won 5 · lost 6
Aya Expanse 8Bwon 4 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 4 · lost 5
GPT OSS 120Bwon 5 · lost 7
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 7
Amazon Nova Prowon 4 · lost 6
Claude Opus 4won 4 · lost 6
Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 6
Gemma 4 12Bwon 3 · lost 5
Llama 2 7B Chatwon 3 · lost 5
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 5
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 3 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Qwen Maxwon 3 · lost 5
Claude 3 Opuswon 3 · lost 5
GPT-4 Turbowon 3 · lost 5
O1 Miniwon 3 · lost 5
MiniMax M2won 3 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 3 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 4 · lost 7
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 4 · lost 7
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 7
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 7
GLM-5.2won 4 · lost 7
Aya Expanse 32Bwon 3 · lost 6
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 6
O1won 3 · lost 6
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 6
Claude Sonnet 4won 4 · lost 8
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 4 · lost 8
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 4 · lost 8
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 8
Phi 4won 3 · lost 7
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 7
O3won 3 · lost 7
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 3 · lost 8
GPT-5won 3 · lost 8
Gemma 2 27B ITwon 2 · lost 6
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 2 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.7won 3 · lost 9
Kimi K2.5won 3 · lost 9
GPT-6 Solwon 3 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 2 · lost 8
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 9
GLM-5.1won 2 · lost 9
Muse Spark 1.1won 2 · lost 9
GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 10
GPT-5.5won 2 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Solwon 2 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4.7won 2 · lost 11
Claude Opus 5.5won 2 · lost 11
GPT-6 Astrawon 1 · lost 7
Gemini 3 Prowon 1 · lost 7
Hy3won 1 · lost 9
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 9
Inklingwon 1 · lost 10
Grok 4.6won 1 · lost 10
Grok 4.5won 1 · lost 10
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 1 · lost 10
GPT-6 Lunawon 1 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 1 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 1 · lost 11
GPT-5.4won 1 · lost 11
Claude Opus 4.8won 1 · lost 11
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 1 · lost 11
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 10
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 10
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 11
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 12

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

6 publications, 16 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
LMArena Text 1437
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
GDPval-AA 573
AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-11-11
AA-Briefcase 316
ParseBench ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-11
ParseBench · Overall 58.5%ParseBench · Tables 70%ParseBench · Charts 14.2%ParseBench · Content faithfulness 83.8%ParseBench · Semantic formatting 65.1%ParseBench · Visual grounding 59.2%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-11
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 21.9%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 5%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 37%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 2.9%Enkrypt · Bias risk 87.1%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 10.7%
Vectara · Factual consistency 94.8%

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