Model comparison
Claude Opus 4 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 39.9 to 30.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 64.4% for Claude Opus 4 and 82.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0765 / $0.26 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
- Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 42.9 | 43.1 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2026-04-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Max output | 32K | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $0.0765 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | $0.26 |
| Results tracked | 56 | 28 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 38.8 (#156)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 35.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1446 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1359 |
| SciCode | — | 40% |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 927.17 |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.1 (#205)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1438 |
| DTBench | 81.6% | 74.9% |
| LMCA | 37.4% | 29.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | 141.85 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 6% |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |
Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#61)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | 82.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1469 |
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.6 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 73.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | 5.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1384 | 1447 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.9 (#43)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | 1260 |
| GeoBench | 49% | — |
| VPCT | 38% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.3 (#68)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1422 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | 1370 | 1459 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1388 | 1415 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1332 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1318 | — |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 75.0 (#78)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1420 |
| IFEval | 91.8% | — |
Long Context Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads
Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1427 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.8 (#110)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1434 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1386 | 1401 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | 1305 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1442 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| WildBench | 85.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?
Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.9 vs 43.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0765 per million input tokens and $0.26 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 38.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT does, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.