Model comparison

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 12, 2026. 15 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus

DeepSeek

43.1

Rank #97 Confirmed

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Summary

They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 47.6 to 38.5.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 81.3% for DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and 74.9% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT.
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.09 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.27 / $1 for DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus.
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 164K.

Side by side

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT specifications
	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Provider	DeepSeek	Google
Noometry Index	43.1	43.5
Released	2025-09-22	2026-04-02
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	164K	262K
Max output	147K	33K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.27	$0.09
Output $ / M tokens	$1	$0.30
Results tracked	16	28

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 42.0 (#113), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
SciCode	40.6%	40%
LMArena Coding	1426	1447
ALE-Bench	745.17	927.17
LMArena WebDev	—	1359
WeirdML	—	35.2%

Reasoning DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 26.4 (#133), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
CritPt	1.7%	0%
LMArena Hard Prompts	1426	1439
DTBench	81.3%	74.9%
LMCA	28.6%	29.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	57.4%	—
Chess Puzzles	—	6%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	141.85

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 38.5 (#137), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Math	1402	1470
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	—	82.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
GPQA Diamond	—	73.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.2%
LMArena Expert	—	1447

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: —, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46)

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Vision	—	1260

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 52.1 (#92), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Non-English	1407	1421
LMArena Russian	1436	1434
LMArena Chinese	—	1495
LMArena French	—	1460
LMArena Spanish	—	1417

Instruction Following Too close to call

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 74.0 (#106), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Instruction Following	1404	1420

Long Context Too close to call

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 43.4 (#97), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Longer Query	1421	1428

Writing & Preference DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus leads

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus: 61.0 (#92), Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
LMArena Text	1419	1434
LMArena Creative Writing	1403	1402
LMArena Multi-Turn	1411	1441
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	—	1305

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus better than Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.09 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus lists at $0.27 and $1.

Is DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better for coding?

DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT does, with 262K tokens against 164K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28.