Model vs model
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Mistral Small 4
There is no price gap: Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Mistral Small 4 both cost $0.26 per 1M tokens blended. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT also leads on the Intelligence Index, 16.7 against 11.3, and on IFBench, 72.4 against 48.2, so it's the stronger pick for instruction-heavy work. Mistral Small 4 is the one to choose if you need longer outputs, with a 256K max output against 131K.
At a glance
Longer bar means the bigger number.
Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better
Where they sit among all 44 models
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT ranks 34th of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, Mistral Small 4 39th. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
Which one to pick
Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B IT if
- you want the higher overall score (16.7 vs 11.3)
- you care about IFBench (instruction following): 72.4 vs 48.2
- you care about AA-LCR (long documents): 65.7 vs 49.7
How smart is each one?
Of the 11 scores both models have, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is ahead on 9 and Mistral Small 4 on 1, and one is within a point.
Every intelligence score we have
Out of 100, higher is better. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Mistral Small 4
Overall
Intelligence Index
16.711.3
By area
Coding
39.326.6Agentic work
2.90.8
By field of work
Finance & accounting
10.5Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Legal
12.8Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Healthcare & medicine
10.8Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Economics
18.9 · 18.1Engineering
16.4Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Strategy & operations
6.7Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Benchmarks
Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam
19.39.9Science · GPQA Diamond
79.276.9Scientific coding · SciCode
4038.8Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0
0Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet
Tool use · τ-Bench Banking
124.9Instruction following · IFBench
72.448.2Long documents · AA-LCR
65.749.7Uncensored · UGI
20.837.4
The specs
| Spec | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | Mistral Small 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.15 per 1M | $0.15 per 1M |
| Output price | $0.60 per 1M | $0.60 per 1M |
| Cost per test task | Not tested | $0.0150 |
| Context window | 262K | 262K |
| Max output | 131K | 256K |
| Accepts | Text, Image, PDF | Text, Image, PDF |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Lab | Mistral AI | |
| Released | Apr 2026 | Mar 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not published | Jun 2025 |
Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.
Questions
Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Mistral Small 4 cheaper?
They cost the same, $0.26 per 1M tokens blended.
Which is smarter, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Mistral Small 4?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 16.7 against 11.3 for Mistral Small 4. The biggest differences are on IFBench (72.4 vs 48.2) and AA-LCR (65.7 vs 49.7).
Which has the longer context window?
Both accept 262K tokens.
Can I compare Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Mistral Small 4 on my own prompt?
Yes. ModelCompare sends one prompt to both models at once and shows each answer side by side with what it cost. You can try it free without an account.
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Where the numbers come from
Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 25, 2026.