Gemma 4 26B A4B vs GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra leads Gemma 4 26B A4B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 52.7 to 16.7, and Gemma 4 26B A4B costs 83.3x less per output token ($0.60 vs $50.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 49 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-6 Astra: which to pick
Only GPT-6 Astra has a coding score, 85.1 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 83.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $50.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: math or LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 49
- Gemma 4 26B A4B only
- 6
- GPT-6 Astra only
- 72
- 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-6 Astra has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra leads, 52.7 against 16.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra leads, 51.0 against 2.9.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only GPT-6 Astra has a Design Arena: websites result, 1336.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only GPT-6 Astra has a Vals Index result, 65.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra 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-6 Astra $0.035 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemma 4 26B A4B not benchmarked, GPT-6 Astra 85.1 from 5 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 48.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- ALE-Bench: Gemma 4 26B A4B 927.2 against GPT-6 Astra 2951.3, 67.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemma 4 26B A4B $0.60 against GPT-6 Astra $50.00 per million output tokens, 83.3x apart.
- Context window
- Gemma 4 26B A4B takes 262K tokens, GPT-6 Astra 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-6 Astra | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 9 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 8 | ||
| Math | 1 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 4 | ||
| General | 2 | 19 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 45 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index09
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 93.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1360 | 1774 | GPT-6 Astra |
| AA Coding Index | 39.3 | 76.9 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.6% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 89.6% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 100.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.6% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.1% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SciCode | 40.0% | 56.5% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 25.0% | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 53.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 65.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 79.4% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| WeirdML | 35.2% | 93.3% | GPT-6 Astra |
| MirrorCode | Not measured | 46.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| ALE-Bench | 927.2 | 2951.3 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1446 | 1489 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1454 | 1474 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1351 | 1798 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1362 | 1775 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1726 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 12.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.7 | 52.7 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.9 | 168.8 | GPT-6 Astra |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 2.9 | 51.0 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1373 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1357 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1312 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1348 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1219 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | Not measured | 1365 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 85.2% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 84.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 82.4% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.9% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 20.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 39.4% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.1% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 62.9% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 65.1% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | Not measured | 90.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 19.2% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 43.6% | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 64.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Remote Labor Index | Not measured | 20.8% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 68.3% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SpireClimb | Not measured | 25.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $15,515 | Only GPT-6 Astra 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-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 92.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.1% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 79.2% | 96.3% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.3% | 54.7% | GPT-6 Astra |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 73.2% | 95.8% | GPT-6 Astra |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 98.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 95.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 74.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 84.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| EBR-bench | Not measured | 76.2% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1438 | 1463 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1447 | 1489 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1448 | 1464 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1264 | 1297 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1293 | 1337 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 82.2% | 100.0% | GPT-6 Astra |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 93.7% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 97.6% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 99.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1470 | 1465 | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1475 | 1484 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 48.5% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 75.6% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1446 | 1451 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1428 | 1425 | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1457 | 1462 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1429 | 1439 | GPT-6 Astra |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 42.7% | 75.7% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1336 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1393 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1478 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1335 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1500 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1379 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1431 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1353 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 82.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index219
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 65.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 83.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.4% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.9% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| IFBench | 72.4% | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 65.7% | 80.7% | GPT-6 Astra |
| DTBench | 74.9% | 97.3% | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMCA | 29.7% | 64.4% | GPT-6 Astra |
| Furniture assembly | Not measured | 80.0% | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text | 1434 | 1441 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1420 | 1455 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1400 | 1420 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision | 1260 | 1280 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: English | 1444 | 1447 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1421 | 1432 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1495 | 1489 | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1459 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1405 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1428 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1460 | 1432 | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1415 | 1422 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1434 | 1438 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1422 | Only GPT-6 Astra measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1441 | 1447 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1427 | 1460 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1405 | 1437 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1403 | 1427 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1256 | 1280 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1312 | 1361 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1268 | 1292 | GPT-6 Astra |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1272 | Not measured | Only Gemma 4 26B A4B measured |
| 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 | 1286 | GPT-6 Astra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | GPT-6 Astra | 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-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 3, 2026 | September 4, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.15 | $10.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $50.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 85.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 5 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemma 4 26B A4B better than GPT-6 Astra for coding?
Only GPT-6 Astra has a coding score, 85.1 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 83.3x cheaper ($0.60 vs $50.00 per million) and work measured by LMArena Text: math or LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-6 Astra?
Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; GPT-6 Astra costs $10.00 and $50.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 4 26B A4B or GPT-6 Astra?
GPT-6 Astra, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemma 4 26B A4B vs GPT-6 Astra comparison based on?
49 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-6 Astra's on 5. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.