Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B , Google — route, pricing & source

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...

OpenRoutermediumLast checked: May 14, 2026
Input
$0.0600 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Output
$0.3300 / 1M
/ 1M tokens
Cached input
Not available
Not available
Cache write
Not available
Not available

Context and limits

Context window
262.1K
Max output
Unknown
Input modalities
image, text, video
Output modalities
text
Weight access
Open weights
Availability
Unknown
Capability flags
VisionToolsJSONReasoningLong context

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Benchmarks

Access and license

Official API
No
Open weights
No
Self-hostable
No
License
Open sourceApache 2.0Code/weights ship under an open license (often MIT / Apache‑2.0). MIT is a short permissive license: use/modify/redistribute freely with a copyright notice—always read the upstream project text.

Example costs

Scenario: 1K input + 300 output tokens / request

10,000 requests
$1.59
100,000 requests
$15.90
1,000,000 requests
$159.00

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Sao10K: Llama 3 8B Lunaris
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Source

Source
OpenRouter Models API
Confidence
medium
Route
OpenRouter
Last checked
May 14, 2026
Source notes
  • Includes Hugging Face benchmark data only when the dataset is public, ungated, allowlisted, and matched by reviewed aliases.
Open source
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