Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 27B

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

Verificato dal team di ricerca di GetInfoUsUltima verifica: October 2026Politica editoriale

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Popular Matchups:

Google

Gemma 4 26B A4B

Modello Base a Pesi Aperti

Gemma 4 26B A4B di Google è un modello di IA progettato per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, con finestra di contesto da 262K, velocità di 160 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 74/100

Intelligence Index74 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

61%

Alibaba

Qwen3.6 27B

IA Multimodale Nativa

Qwen3.6 27B di Alibaba è un modello di IA progettato per la comprensione multimodale nativa di testo e immagini e l’analisi visiva dei documenti, con finestra di contesto da 262K, velocità di 92 token/s, indice di intelligenza di 77/100 e t

Intelligence Index77 / 100

Input Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$0.00 / 1M

Context Window:

262.1K tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

N/A

Differenze Chiave a Colpo d’Occhio

Both models cost the same under this workload — choose on capability, not price.
Gemma 4 26B A4B is faster at 160 tok/s vs 92 tok/s.

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Feature	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Qwen3.6 27B
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	74	77
Provider	Google	Alibaba
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$0.00 / 1M	$0.00 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text	262.1K tokens~393 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	33K	8K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	160 tok/s	92 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	61%	N/A
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	71.5%	58%

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Evaluations ongoing

Cost

Tied

Identical monthly runtime cost

Speed

Gemma 4 26B A4B

+74% faster generation

Context

Tied

262.1K tokens window

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Gemma 4 26B A4BQwen3.6 27B

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

61%vsN/A

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

71.5%vs58%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

80.5%vs75.5%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1365ptsvs1295pts

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

160 tok/s vs92 tok/s

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Gemma 4 26B A4B0.29s

Qwen3.6 27B0.39s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Gemma 4 26B A4B3.42s

Qwen3.6 27B5.82s

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Gemma 4 26B A4B Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

Qwen3.6 27B Monthly API Bill

$0.00 / month

$0/1M in · $0/1M out

These models cost the same under this workload — no savings either way.Break-even

Gemma 4 26B A4B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 262K con capacità massima di output fino a 33K token (SWE-bench Verified 61% · GPQA Diamond 71.5%)
Throughput elevato di 160 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 290 ms
Pesi aperti (26B (4B MoE)) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Qwen3.6 27B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Finestra di contesto da 262K con capacità massima di output fino a 8K token (GPQA Diamond 58% · MMLU-Pro 75.5%)
Throughput elevato di 92 token/secondo con latenza al primo token (TTFT) di soli 390 ms
Pesi aperti (27B) pronti per il self-hosting locale o su cloud privato tramite vLLM, SGLang o Ollama

Considerations & Trade-offs

Richiede server GPU dedicati con sufficiente memoria VRAM per l’esecuzione locale a piena precisione
Nelle dimostrazioni scientifiche più estreme, i modelli di ragionamento pesante dedicati offrono maggiore profondità

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Qwen3.6 27B
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$0.00	$0.00
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	8K	14K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	3K	3K

Specifiche Tecniche

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Qwen3.6 27B
Official API Model ID (SDK)	models/gemma-4-26b-a4b	qwen3-6-27b-instruct
API Protocol	Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK	OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Release Date	2026-04	2026-04
Knowledge Cutoff	January 2026	February 2026
Architecture	Sparse Mixture-of-Experts open transformer (26B total, 4B active)	Refined Dense Multimodal Transformer
Parameters	26B (4B active MoE)	27B
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud	Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)	Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)	Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox	Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)	Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 16 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 56 GB VRAM (Native BF16)	BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 17 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 58 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified	Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control	100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision
Output Modalities	text	text

Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 27B: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.6 27B is more intelligent. It scores 77 compared with 74 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Gemma 4 26B A4B is faster, generating 160 tokens per second compared with 92 tokens per second.

Which model has lower latency?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.29s compared with 0.39s.

Verdetto

Sia Gemma 4 26B A4B (Ideale per il self-hosting su infrastruttura privata, il fine-tuning e la piena sovranità dei dati, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) sia Qwen3.6 27B (Ideale per la comprensione multimodale nativa di testo e immagini e l’analisi visiva dei documenti, sistemi RAG aziendali e integrazioni API scalabili.) eccellono in produzione: Qwen3.6 27B guida nei benchmark di ragionamento e programmazione, Gemma 4 26B A4B garantisce una generazione più rapida e Gemma 4 26B A4B offre il miglior rapporto qualità-prezzo per carichi API elevati.

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

Quale modello è migliore per coding e ragionamento, Gemma 4 26B A4B o Qwen3.6 27B?+

Nell’indice di intelligenza composito e nei benchmark di programmazione prevale Qwen3.6 27B. Consulta i punteggi SWE-bench e GPQA qui sopra per tutti i dettagli.

Qual è la differenza di prezzo API tra Gemma 4 26B A4B e Qwen3.6 27B?+

Gemma 4 26B A4B costa $0.00 / $0.00 per milione di token di input/output, mentre Qwen3.6 27B costa $0.00 / $0.00. Nel costo combinato, Gemma 4 26B A4B risulta più economico.

Quale modello ha la finestra di contesto più ampia e la velocità maggiore?+

Gemma 4 26B A4B supporta 262.1K token di contesto contro 262.1K token di Qwen3.6 27B, mentre Gemma 4 26B A4B offre una velocità di generazione superiore.

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Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 27B

Cambia e Confronta Qualsiasi Modello

Gemma 4 26B A4B

Qwen3.6 27B

Chi vince in ogni categoria?

Punteggi Benchmark Verificati

Latenza e Tempo di Risposta

Simulatore Interattivo dei Costi Token

Gemma 4 26B A4B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Qwen3.6 27B · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Specifiche Tecniche

Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 27B: Risposte Rapide (FAQ)

Verdetto

Domande Frequenti (FAQ)

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