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Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

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Google open-weight Gemma 4 instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts multimodal model hosted by the Gemini API.

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gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
Updated Sep 23, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
256K
Maximum output
Not published
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Not published

Hosted price

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.00
Output
$0.00
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Paid tier input

No longer sold per 1M tokens
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Gemma 4 on the Gemini API is listed as free of charge on the free tier (content used to improve Google's products); every paid-tier price is listed as Not available. Tuning and Grounding with Google Search are not available. Self-hosting the open weights carries no provider token price.

Price history
Sep 23, 2026

Input $0.00 per million tokens

Sep 23, 2026

Output $0.00 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
25.2B
Active parameters
3.8B
Architecture
Mixture-of-Experts transformer: 128 experts, 8 active plus 1 shared; 30 layers; hybrid 1,024-token sliding-window and global attention; ~550M-parameter vision encoder
Training / knowledge cutoff
January 2025
Input modalities
Text, image
Output modalities
Text

License

Apache 2.0

Release & lifecycle

Published
Apr 2, 2026
available
As of Sep 13, 2026

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