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Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 3 categories and Grok 4 in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 43.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Chess Puzzles: 6% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and 28% for Grok 4.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index43.548.1
Released2026-04-022025-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window262K—
Max output33K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.09—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked2848

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
WeirdML35.2%45.7%
LMArena Coding14471408
Aider Polyglot—79.6%
LMArena WebDev1359—
SciCode40%—
ALE-Bench927.17—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —, Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—63%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
Chess Puzzles6%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts14391409
Epoch Capabilities Index141.85146.44
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—73.6%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
CritPt0%—
DTBench74.9%—
LMCA29.7%—
ForecastBench—60.9

Math Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202582.2%84%
LMArena Math14701422
Omni-MATH—60.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
GPQA Diamond73.2%87%
LMArena Expert14471415
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
LMArena Vision12601210
GeoBench—45%

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
LMArena Non-English14211403
LMArena Chinese14951427
LMArena French14601418
LMArena Russian14341410
LMArena Spanish14171420
LMArena German—1429
LMArena Japanese—1394
LMArena Korean—1377

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following14201387
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
LMArena Longer Query14281409
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITGrok 4
LMArena Text14341411
LMArena Creative Writing14021397
LMArena Multi-Turn14411416
Short-Story Creative Writing—76.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1305—
WildBench—79.7%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 43.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Grok 4 share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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