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Model comparison

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT vs Mistral Nemo

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google

43.5

Rank #92 Confirmed

Mistral Nemo Mistral AI

26.4

Rank #337 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT scores higher in 4 categories and Mistral Nemo in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads 45.7 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 73.2% for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT and 29.9% for Mistral Nemo.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper at $0.0675 / $0.23 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.15 for Mistral Nemo.
  • Gemma 4 26B A4B IT accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Gemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
ProviderGoogleMistral AI
Noometry Index43.526.4
Released2026-04-022024-07-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window262K128K
Max output33K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.0675$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$0.23$0.15
Results tracked2810

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 39.0 (#164), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
LMArena WebDev1359—
SciCode40%—
WeirdML35.2%—
LMArena Coding1447—
ALE-Bench927.17—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: —, Mistral Nemo: 23.5 (#125)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—27.6%
BALROG—17.6%

Reasoning Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 21.8 (#213), Mistral Nemo: 20.7 (#232)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
DTBench74.9%48.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.85118.68
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1439—
LMCA29.7%—
PIQA—83.5%

Math Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 47.6 (#67), Mistral Nemo: 25.5 (#268)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202582.2%—
LMArena Math1470—
MATH Level 5—10.8%
GSM8K—84.2%

Knowledge Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 45.7 (#85), Mistral Nemo: 12.3 (#298)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
GPQA Diamond73.2%29.9%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.2%—
LMArena Expert1447—
BoolQ—82.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
LMArena Vision1260—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 53.1 (#71), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
LMArena Non-English1421—
LMArena Chinese1495—
LMArena French1460—
LMArena Russian1434—
LMArena Spanish1417—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 74.8 (#82), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
LMArena Instruction Following1420—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 43.6 (#91), Mistral Nemo: —

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Gemma 4 26B A4B IT leads

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: 58.6 (#115), Mistral Nemo: 28.5 (#296)

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4B ITMistral Nemo
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1305881
LMArena Text1434—
LMArena Creative Writing1402—
LMArena Multi-Turn1441—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better than Mistral Nemo?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 26.4 on the Noometry Index.

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

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is cheaper. It lists at $0.0675 per million input tokens and $0.23 per million output tokens; Mistral Nemo lists at $0.15 and $0.15.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT does, with 262K tokens against 128K.

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

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 4 26B A4B IT has 28 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Nemo has 10.

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