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Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral AI

40.2

Rank #152 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium 3.5 in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 47.6 to 39.1.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium 3.5.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.540.2
Released2026-04-02—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K262K
Max output33K210K
Input $ / M tokens$0.0675$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$0.23$7.50
Results tracked2822

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), Mistral Medium 3.5: 36.0 (#213)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena WebDev13591264
LMArena Coding14471461
SciCode40%—
WeirdML35.2%—
ALE-Bench927.17—

Reasoning Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), Mistral Medium 3.5: 17.3 (#295)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Hard Prompts14391436
Epoch Capabilities Index141.85141.35
Kagi LLM Benchmark—41.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—12.9%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
DTBench74.9%—
LMCA29.7%—

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), Mistral Medium 3.5: 39.1 (#113)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Math14701431
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202582.2%—

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), Mistral Medium 3.5: 40.0 (#126)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Expert14471432
GPQA Diamond73.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—

Multimodal Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 40.6 (#46), Mistral Medium 3.5: 38.3 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Vision12601223

Multilingual Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), Mistral Medium 3.5: 51.9 (#100)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Non-English14211404
LMArena Chinese14951442
LMArena French14601448
LMArena Russian14341395
LMArena Spanish14171409
LMArena German—1451
LMArena Korean—1385

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), Mistral Medium 3.5: 74.6 (#90)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Instruction Following14201415

Long Context Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), Mistral Medium 3.5: 43.2 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Longer Query14281415

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), Mistral Medium 3.5: 58.5 (#117)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Medium 3.5
LMArena Text14341421
LMArena Creative Writing14021374
LMArena Multi-Turn14411423
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1305—
EQ-Bench 4—993

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 40.2 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Mistral Medium 3.5?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium 3.5 lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT or Mistral Medium 3.5 better for coding?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 36.0 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 Mistral Medium 3.5 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium 3.5 has 22.

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