Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.5 2B?

Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.5 2B

30 SHARED BENCHMARKS

Across 30 shared benchmarks, Gemma 4 26B A4B scores higher on 27 and Qwen3.5 2B on 2, with 1 level. The widest gap is τ³-Bench, where Gemma 4 26B A4B scores 59 against 6.2.

GOOGLEVSALIBABA30 SHARED27–2 HEAD-TO-HEAD

BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BMARGINQwen3.5 2B

AA Agentic Index32.10.8

AA Intelligence266.9

AA-LCR65.725.6

AA-Omniscience-50.8-60.2

Artificial Analysis Coding Index39.32.9

C-Eval82.573.2

critpt00

gdpval25.70

GPQA Diamond82.351.6

HallusionBench66.165.5

HLE19.35

IFBench72.441.3

ifeval91.478.6

MathVista79.448.7

mmlu_redux92.779.6

MMLU-Pro85.266.5

mmmlu86.363.1

MMMU-Pro73.843

OmniScience Accuracy19.18.1

OmniScience Non-Hallucination13.625.8

RealWorldQA72.265.1

scicode40.37.2

SimpleVQA52.235.2

supergpqa61.437.5

t2-bench85.548.8

TauBench V3 - Banking122.5

Terminal-Bench 2.1393

Terminal-Bench Hard253.8

τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)43.681.6

τ³-Bench596.2

Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing.

Compare Gemma 4 26B A4B withALL PAIRINGS →

GoogleGemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 3 Pro Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 1.5 Pro Gemma 4 31B Gemma 4 E2B

Across the fieldQwen3.6 27B Qwen3.7 Max Qwen3.8 Max Preview Qwen3.7 Plus Preview Claude Opus 4 Qwen3.5 4B Gemini 3.6 Flash Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B

Compare Qwen3.5 2B withALL PAIRINGS →

AlibabaQwen3.5 35B A3B Qwen3 VL 4B (Reasoning)Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen2.5 Instruct 72B Qwen3.5 27B Qwen3.6 Plus

Across the fieldKimi K3 Llama 3.1 Instruct 405B DeepSeek-V3.2 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Claude Opus 4.7 Gemini 2.5 Pro Gemini 1.5 Pro Claude Sonnet 4