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Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Qwen3.8 27B

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At a glance

Longer bar means the bigger number.

Open or closed · can you download the model and run it yourself?

Gemma 4 26B A4B ITOpen weights · download it, run it on your own hardware or any host
Qwen3.8 27BOpen weights · download it, run it on your own hardware or any host

Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT$0.26
Qwen3.8 27B$1.13

Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT16.7
Qwen3.8 27B33.7

Context window · tokens it can read at once

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT262K
Qwen3.8 27B1M

Where they sit among all 44 models

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT ranks 34th of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, Qwen3.8 27B 23rd. 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.

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Intelligence: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Price: blended per 1M tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output, on a log scale.

Which one to pick

Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B IT if

  • you want the lower bill ($0.26 vs $1.13 per 1M tokens blended)

Pick Qwen3.8 27B if

  • you want the higher overall score (33.7 vs 16.7)
  • you care about agentic work: 45.8 vs 2.9
  • you care about τ-Bench Banking (tool use): 48 vs 12
  • you need a longer context window (1M vs 262K tokens)

See how they answer your prompt

Same prompt, both models

We send the same short tests to every model several times. These are the ones where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Qwen3.8 27B answered differently, from our runs on October 18, 2026 and October 25, 2026. Long answers are cut short.

Name a smart-umbrella startup

“Invent a name for a startup that sells smart umbrellas. Reply with the name only.”

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

“skyguard” 5 of 5 times

SkyGuard

under $0.0001 · 0.4s

Qwen3.8 27B

“canopyiq” 4 of 5 times

CanopyIQ

$0.0003 · 4.2s

Best AI model

“Which AI model is the best right now? Reply with one model name only.”

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

“gpt-4o” 2 of 3 times

GPT-4o

under $0.0001 · 0.5s

Qwen3.8 27B

“qwen” 2 of 3 times

Qwen

$0.0009 · 8.0s

Run your own test on both

Asked to draw the same picture

We asked both models: “Draw an SVG of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle.” They had to answer with SVG code alone, with no image tools.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT's SVG drawing of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Qwen3.8 27B's SVG drawing of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle

Qwen3.8 27B

Each model’s first drawing, exactly as it wrote the SVG. Nothing was picked or retouched.

Ask both for your own drawing

How smart is each one?

Of the 9 scores both models have, Qwen3.8 27B is ahead on every one.

Every intelligence score we have

Out of 100, higher is better. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Qwen3.8 27B

Overall

  • Intelligence Index

By area

  • Coding

  • Agentic work

By field of work

  • Finance & accounting

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

  • Legal

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

  • Healthcare & medicine

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

  • Economics

  • Engineering

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

  • Strategy & operations

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

Benchmarks

  • Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam

  • Science · GPQA Diamond

  • Scientific coding · SciCode

  • Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0

    Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: not scored yet

  • Tool use · τ-Bench Banking

  • Instruction following · IFBench

    Qwen3.8 27B: not scored yet

  • Long documents · AA-LCR

  • Uncensored · UGI

    Qwen3.8 27B: not scored yet

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The specs

Spec Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Qwen3.8 27B
Input price$0.15 per 1M$0.50 per 1M
Output price$0.60 per 1M$3 per 1M
Cost per test taskNot tested$1.01
Context window262K1M
Max output131K131K
AcceptsText, Image, PDFText, Image, PDF
Open weightsYesYes
LabGoogleAlibaba
ReleasedApr 2026Aug 2026
Knowledge cutoffNot publishedNot published

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 Qwen3.8 27B cheaper?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It charges $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, against $0.50 and $3 for Qwen3.8 27B. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $0.26 against $1.13 per 1M tokens.

Are Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Qwen3.8 27B open source?

Both are open-weights models: Google and Alibaba publish the weights, so you can download them and run them on your own hardware, or call them through any host's API. Check each model's license before you ship it.

Which is smarter, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Qwen3.8 27B?

Qwen3.8 27B scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 33.7 against 16.7 for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT. The biggest differences are on Agentic work (2.9 vs 45.8) and τ-Bench Banking (12 vs 48).

Which has the longer context window?

Qwen3.8 27B accepts 1M tokens, against 262K for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.

Can I compare Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Qwen3.8 27B 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 26, 2026.