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Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Kimi K3

Updated October 21, 2026. 41 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

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Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle
Coding
22.8
Overall
16.7
Output $/M
$0.255
0
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
61.8
Overall
43.6
Output $/M
$11.936
41
vs boards won of 41 shared

Decision reading

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 61.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.8 for Gemma 4 26B A4B.

Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B when output tokens cost 46.8x less.

Model AGemma 4 26B A4BGoogle22.8/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BKimi K3Moonshot AI61.8/1002 independent benchmarks$0.81 per solved task
Shared results
41
Gemma 4 26B A4B only
13
Kimi K3 only
76
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

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.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemma 4 26B A4B 22.8 from 1 benchmark, Kimi K3 61.8 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 47.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
WeirdML: Gemma 4 26B A4B 35.2% against Kimi K3 82.6%, 47.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemma 4 26B A4B $0.255 against Kimi K3 $11.936 per million output tokens, 46.8x apart.
Context window
Gemma 4 26B A4B takes 262K tokens, Kimi K3 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemma 4 26B A4BBarsKimi K3Ties
Coding09
Intelligence02
Agentic work01
Reasoning06
Math03
Knowledge04
General016
All shared boards041
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index09
Coding benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
LiveBench codingNot measured59.3%Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev13601655Kimi K3
AA Coding Index39.376.2Kimi K3
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured87.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured93.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured17.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured85.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured16.1%Only Kimi K3 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured2.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured48.9%Only Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured80.9%Only Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)Not measured44.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured18.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured75.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
SciCode40.0%59.5%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)25.0%Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
FrontierCodeNot measured44.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
FrontierSWENot measured25.9%Only Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML35.2%82.6%Kimi K3
ALE-Bench927.21524.5Kimi K3
LMArena Text: coding14461508Kimi K3
LMArena Text: software and IT14541499Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: React13511670Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: HTML13621644Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1579Only Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
AA Intelligence Index16.743.6Kimi K3
Epoch Capabilities Index141.9157.9Kimi K3
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
AA Agentic Index2.950.0Kimi K3
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1296Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1315Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1267Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1256Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot gamesNot measured1223Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1252Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1256Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1273Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1058Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench researchNot measured79.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench browserNot measured16.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured42.8%Only Kimi K3 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured53.1%Only Kimi K3 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured33.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured46.1%Only Kimi K3 measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured12.9%Only Kimi K3 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured66.7%Only Kimi K3 measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)Not measured72.6%Only Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)Not measured1.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)Not measured10.5%Only Kimi K3 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom43.6%Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
APEX-AgentsNot measured47.8%Only Kimi K3 measured
PostTrainBenchNot measured32.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
Vending-Bench 2Not measured$5,165Only Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured92.9%Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench reasoningNot measured90.7%Only Kimi K3 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured88.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)79.2%93.5%Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)19.3%46.9%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)73.2%93.1%Kimi K3
ARC-AGINot measured94.5%Only Kimi K3 measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured60.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
SimpleBenchNot measured60.7%Only Kimi K3 measured
Chess puzzlesNot measured37.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured26.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14381495Kimi K3
LMArena Text: expert14471520Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14481496Kimi K3
LMArena Vision: diagrams1264Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: homework1293Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
OTIS Mock AIME82.2%97.2%Kimi K3
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured72.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured39.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
ProofBenchNot measured87.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: math14701494Kimi K3
LMArena Text: mathematical work14751505Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
MMLU ProNot measured88.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured86.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured71.6%Only Kimi K3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured75.7%Only Kimi K3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured66.3%Only Kimi K3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured49.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured50.6%Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: science14461508Kimi K3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14281489Kimi K3
LMArena Text: legal and government14571503Kimi K3
LMArena Text: business and finance14291470Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1336Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1345Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1361Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1350Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1388Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1361Only Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1301Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench designNot measured77.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index016
General benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
Vals IndexNot measured53.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench data analysisNot measured78.7%Only Kimi K3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured68.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured52.8%Only Kimi K3 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured88.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured73.4%Only Kimi K3 measured
IFBench72.4%Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)65.7%88.7%Kimi K3
DTBench74.9%91.2%Kimi K3
LMCA29.7%52.7%Kimi K3
Surface Evolver BenchNot measured95.0%Only Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assemblyNot measured34.2%Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text14341476Kimi K3
LMArena Text: instruction following14201485Kimi K3
LMArena Text: creative writing14001457Kimi K3
LMArena Vision1260Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Text: English14441481Kimi K3
LMArena Text: non-English14211466Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Chinese14951529Kimi K3
LMArena Text: GermanNot measured1490Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1494Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: KoreanNot measured1460Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: French14601492Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Spanish14151472Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Russian14341485Kimi K3
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1458Only Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn14411489Kimi K3
LMArena Text: longer queries14271494Kimi K3
LMArena Text: writing and language14051471Kimi K3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14031453Kimi K3
LMArena Vision: English1256Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1312Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1268Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: humor1272Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1297Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1191Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1256Not measuredOnly Gemma 4 26B A4B 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
Image generation benchmarks for Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BKimi K3Leader
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$0.0002Fits in one request
Kimi K3$0.0062Fits in one request

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.0046Fits in one request
Kimi K3$0.048Fits in one request

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemma 4 26B A4B$0.018Fits in one request
Kimi K3$0.167Fits in one request

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.

Specifications of Gemma 4 26B A4B and Kimi K3
SpecificationGoogle Gemma 4 26B A4BMoonshotAI Kimi K3
MakerGoogleMoonshot AI
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedApril 3, 2026July 16, 2026
Context window262K1.05M
Input $/Mtok$0.0765$0.239
Output $/Mtok$0.255$11.936
Coding index22.861.8
Independent measurements behind it12
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.81
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemma 4 26B A4B better than Kimi K3 for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 61.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 22.8 for Gemma 4 26B A4B. Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B when output tokens cost 46.8x less.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Kimi K3?

Gemma 4 26B A4B costs $0.0765 per million input tokens and $0.255 per million output tokens; Kimi K3 costs $0.239 and $11.936. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Kimi K3?

Kimi K3, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Kimi K3 comparison based on?

41 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemma 4 26B A4B's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Kimi K3's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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