Gemma 4 26B A4B vs GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads Gemma 4 26B A4B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 47.0 to 16.7, and Gemma 4 26B A4B costs 33.3x less per output token ($0.60 vs $20.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 53 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-5.6 Sol: which to pick
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a coding score, 73.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 4 26B A4B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B for output tokens 33.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $20.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Vision: humor, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 53
- Gemma 4 26B A4B only
- 2
- GPT-5.6 Sol only
- 86
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads, 47.0 against 16.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol leads, 50.2 against 2.9.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a GPQA Diamond result, 95.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a MMLU Pro result, 89.1%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a Design Arena: websites result, 1321.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Gemma 4 26B A4B $0.0004, GPT-5.6 Sol $0.014 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has the number, $1.20.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemma 4 26B A4B not benchmarked, GPT-5.6 Sol 73.5 from 6 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 44.4 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- WeirdML: Gemma 4 26B A4B 35.2% against GPT-5.6 Sol 88.8%, 53.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemma 4 26B A4B $0.60 against GPT-5.6 Sol $20.00 per million output tokens, 33.3x apart.
- Context window
- Gemma 4 26B A4B takes 262K tokens, GPT-5.6 Sol 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Bars | GPT-5.6 Sol | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 10 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 8 | ||
| Math | 0 | 3 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 5 | ||
| General | 1 | 22 | ||
| All shared boards | 1 | 52 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index010
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 89.7% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1360 | 1616 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| AA Coding Index | 39.3 | 77.4 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.9% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.9% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 1.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SciCode | 40.0% | 57.8% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 25.0% | 65.9% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 47.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 32.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 76.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | 88.8% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| MirrorCode | Not measured | 20.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| ALE-Bench | 927.2 | 2176.9 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1446 | 1496 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1454 | 1489 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1351 | 1620 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1362 | 1618 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1609 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 10.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.7 | 47.0 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.9 | 162.8 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 2.9 | 50.2 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1245 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1261 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1248 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1240 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1260 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1266 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1236 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1215 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 54.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 88.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 48.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 30.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 48.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 41.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 8.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 43.6% | 85.1% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Not measured | 27.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 60.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| PostTrainBench | Not measured | 36.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $9,619 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Search | Not measured | 1261 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 95.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 91.7% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 79.2% | 94.1% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.3% | 49.5% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 73.2% | 93.5% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 97.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 92.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 64.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 59.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 58.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 44.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1438 | 1483 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1447 | 1517 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1448 | 1477 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1264 | 1305 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1293 | 1305 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 67.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 82.2% | 100.0% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 89.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 82.9% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 83.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1470 | 1473 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1475 | 1496 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 89.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.4% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 74.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.3% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 44.0% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 69.7% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1446 | 1455 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1428 | 1431 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1457 | 1476 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1429 | 1457 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 42.7% | 52.4% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1321 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1335 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1367 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1322 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1384 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1341 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1314 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1304 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 81.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index122
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 79.8% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.5% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 52.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.2% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 72.6% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| IFBench | 72.4% | 72.7% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 65.7% | 84.0% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| DTBench | 74.9% | 95.7% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMCA | 29.7% | 58.5% | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Not measured | 93.1% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 56.7% | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text | 1434 | 1457 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1420 | 1483 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1400 | 1449 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision | 1260 | 1281 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: English | 1444 | 1457 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1421 | 1451 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1495 | 1525 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1476 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1472 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1442 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1460 | 1472 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1415 | 1443 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1434 | 1471 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1459 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1441 | 1461 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1427 | 1481 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1405 | 1462 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1403 | 1450 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1256 | 1280 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1312 | 1313 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1268 | 1290 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1272 | 1246 | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1297 | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1191 | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1256 | 1283 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1483 | Only GPT-5.6 Sol measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-5.6 Sol | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemma 4 26B A4B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemma 4 26B A4B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Gemma 4 26B A4B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemma 4 26B A4B | OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 3, 2026 | July 9, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $4.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $20.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 73.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 6 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $1.20 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemma 4 26B A4B better than GPT-5.6 Sol for coding?
Only GPT-5.6 Sol has a coding score, 73.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 4 26B A4B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B for output tokens 33.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $20.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Vision: humor, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-5.6 Sol?
Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol costs $4.00 and $20.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.6 Sol only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-5.6 Sol?
GPT-5.6 Sol, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemma 4 26B A4B vs GPT-5.6 Sol comparison based on?
53 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemma 4 26B A4B's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and GPT-5.6 Sol's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.