Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Across 62 shared benchmarks tracked on Vector Wire, Gemma 4 26B A4B leads on 8 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B leads on 54 — Qwen3.6 35B A3B leads on more. Strengths differ by axis; the table below shows every head-to-head number with provenance.

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Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B

GooglevsAlibaba62 shared benchmarks8–54 head-to-head

Benchmark	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
AA Agentic Index	32.1	21.6
AA Intelligence	26.1	32.1
AA-LCR	61.7	66.7
AA-Omniscience	-50.8	-22.2
AI2D	88.3	92.7
aime_2026	88.3	92.7
Artificial Analysis Coding Index	39.3	41.9
browsecomp	26.3	48.7
C-Eval	82.5	90
CC-OCR	74.5	81.9
charxiv_rq	69	78
Claw Eval (pass@3)	28	50
Claw-Eval Avg	58.8	68.7
critpt	0	0.3
DeepPlanning	16.2	25.9
gdpval	25.7	27.8
GDPval-AA v2	807	1015
GPQA (unspecified)	82.3	86
GPQA Diamond	82.3	86
HallusionBench	66.1	69.8
HLE	19.3	22.2
HLE (text-only, no tools)	17.4	19.6
hmmt_feb_2025	91.7	90.7
hmmt_feb_2026	79	83.6
hmmt_nov_2025	87.5	89.1
IFBench	72.4	64.4
imo_answer_bench	74.3	78.9
LiveCodeBench v6	77.1	80.4
MathVista	79.4	86.4
MCP Atlas	50	62.8
mcpmark	14.2	37
MMBench EN-DEV-v1.1	89	92.8
mmlu_redux	92.7	93.3
MMLU-Pro	85.2	85.6
MMMU	78.4	81.7
MMMU-Pro	73.8	75.3
nl2repo	11.6	29.4
OmniDocBench 1.5	74.4	89.9
OmniScience Accuracy	19.1	18.8
OmniScience Non-Hallucination	13.6	49.5
PinchBench	74.7	88.1
QwenClawBench	38.7	52.6
QwenWebBench	1178	1397
RealWorldQA	72.2	85.3
scicode	40.3	35.8
SimpleVQA	52.2	58.9
SkillsBench Avg5	12.3	28.7
supergpqa	61.4	64.7
SWE-bench Multilingual	43.4	67.2
SWE-bench Pro	13.8	49.5
SWE-bench Verified	57.4	73.4
TauBench V3 - Banking	12	9.3
Terminal-Bench 2.0	34.2	51.5
Terminal-Bench 2.1	39	44.9
Terminal-Bench Hard	25	34.8
tool_decathlon	12	26.9
VITA-Bench	36.9	35.6
WideSearch	38.3	60.1
ZEROBench_sub	26.3	34.4
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)	43.6	95.3
τ³-Bench	59	67.2
τ³-bench (Banking)	14	10.5

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.