Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
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Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Comparison Table
Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 20, 2026
| Property | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Qwen | |
| Category | open | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Apr 2026 | Sep 2025 |
| Context Window | 256K | 256K |
| Parameters | 25.2B | 235B |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.070 | $0.210 |
| Output $/1M | $0.340 | $1.90 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| classification | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 66.4% |
| Object Detection | – | 42.3% |
| Counting | – | 47.3% |
| Identification | – | 90.6% |
| OCR | – | 88.1% |
| Data Extraction | – | 86.6% |
| Reasoning | – | 43.5% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0007 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 8.2s |
Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: Overview
Gemma 4 26B A4B is the Mixture-of-Experts variant in Google's Gemma 4 family, with 25.2B total parameters but only 3.8B active per token. Built from the same Gemini 3 research as the 31B dense sibling and released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, it supports a 256K token context window with text and image input and configurable thinking mode. The "A4B" in the name refers to its approximately 4B active parameters. The MoE design makes it significantly faster at inference than the dense 31B, running nearly as fast as a 4B-parameter model while delivering roughly 97% of the dense model's quality.
For vision tasks, the 26B A4B shares the same multimodal capabilities as the 31B image understanding with variable aspect ratios and resolutions, and structured bounding box output for UI element detection. The tradeoff versus the 31B dense model is a small quality reduction in exchange for much faster inference and lower hardware requirements, fitting in 18GB of VRAM at 4-bit quantization. It ranked #6 among open models on the Arena AI text leaderboard at launch.
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct is a flagship multimodal vision-language model developed by Qwen (Alibaba Cloud), designed for instruction-following tasks that combine advanced text generation with visual understanding. It serves as a high-end open-weight model for developers and researchers building multimodal AI systems that require strong reasoning, perception, and long-context capabilities.
The model supports interleaved text and image inputs, very long context windows (up to roughly 256K tokens), and efficient inference through a mixture-of-experts architecture with about 22B active parameters out of 235B total. In today’s landscape, it competes with top-tier proprietary vision-language models while offering the advantages of open weights and flexible deployment. Typical applications include multimodal assistants, document and image analysis, visual reasoning, and large-context instruction-based workflows.