Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Hy3

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Hy3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 44.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Hy3

Tencent

44.2

Rank #79 Confirmed

Summary

They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 2 categories and Hy3 in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in coding, where Hy3 leads 46.8 to 39.0.
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $0.0825 / $0.33 for Hy3.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Hy3 specifications
	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
Provider	Google	Tencent
Noometry Index	43.5	44.2
Released	2026-04-02	2026-07-06
Weights	Open	Open
Context window	262K	262K
Max output	33K	128K
Input $ / M tokens	$0.0675	$0.0825
Output $ / M tokens	$0.23	$0.33
Results tracked	28	19

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Category by category

Coding Hy3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), Hy3: 46.8 (#63)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena WebDev	1359	1508
LMArena Coding	1447	1464
SciCode	40%	—
WeirdML	35.2%	—
ALE-Bench	927.17	—

Reasoning Hy3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), Hy3: 26.1 (#136)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Hard Prompts	1439	1447
NYT Connections (extended)	—	41.2%
CritPt	0%	—
Chess Puzzles	6%	—
DTBench	74.9%	—
LMCA	29.7%	—
Epoch Capabilities Index	141.85	—

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), Hy3: 40.1 (#93)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Math	1470	1475
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	82.2%	—

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), Hy3: 40.8 (#114)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Expert	1447	1460
GPQA Diamond	73.2%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	5.2%	—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), Hy3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Vision	1260	—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), Hy3: 53.5 (#65)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Non-English	1421	1426
LMArena Chinese	1495	1493
LMArena French	1460	1461
LMArena Russian	1434	1432
LMArena Spanish	1417	1456
LMArena German	—	1439
LMArena Japanese	—	1392
LMArena Korean	—	1395

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), Hy3: 75.1 (#70)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Instruction Following	1420	1426

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), Hy3: 44.1 (#75)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Longer Query	1428	1442

Writing & Preference Hy3 leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), Hy3: 62.2 (#81)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B IT	Hy3
LMArena Text	1434	1439
LMArena Creative Writing	1402	1402
LMArena Multi-Turn	1441	1436
EQ-Bench Creative Writing	1305	—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than Hy3?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Hy3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.5 vs 44.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Hy3?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; Hy3 lists at $0.0825 and $0.33.

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Hy3 better for coding?

Hy3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 262K tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and Hy3 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and Hy3 has 19.