Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT costs 94× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 21.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 78% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 35.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • Claude Opus 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.243.5
Released2026-02-042026-04-02
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K33K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.0675
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.23
Results tracked6828

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena WebDev15471359
WeirdML78%35.2%
LMArena Coding15361447
ALE-Bench996.5927.17
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
SciCode—40%
GSO41.2%—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Chess Puzzles17%6%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271439
DTBench91.2%74.9%
LMCA55.8%29.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24141.85
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%82.2%
LMArena Math15191470
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
ProofBench50%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
GPQA Diamond90.5%73.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%5.2%
LMArena Expert15461447
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—

Multimodal Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Vision13161260
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Non-English14891421
LMArena Chinese15511495
LMArena French15131460
LMArena Russian14971434
LMArena Spanish15101417
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Instruction Following15231420

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Longer Query15201428
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Text15031434
LMArena Creative Writing15051402
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18091305
LMArena Multi-Turn15131441
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT costs 94× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.6 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.

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