Gemma 4 26B A4B
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at a fraction of the compute cost. Supports multimodal input including text, images, and video (up to 60s at 1fps). Features a 256K token context window, native function calling, configurable thinking/reasoning mode, and structured output support. Released under Apache 2.0.
Context window
This model accepts 262K tokens in one request (~197K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- FitsSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
Context size, pricing, and release info in one place.
- Context window
- 262,144 tokens (262K)
- Max output tokens
- 262,144 tokens (262K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Release date
- Apr 2026
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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