Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
90
Gemma 4 26B A4B
57
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) #5 · Gemma 4 26B A4B unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Knowledge
+19.0 difference
Multimodal
+9.5 difference
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)
Gemma 4 26B A4B
$5 / $25
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1M
256K
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 90 to 57. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive)'s sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 68.2 against 49.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 54.7% to 17.2%. Gemma 4 26B A4B does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 26B A4B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 26B A4B.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 90 to 57. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 54.7% and 17.2%.
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.2 versus 49.2. Inside this category, HLE w/o tools is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.8 versus 64.3. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive) stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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