Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think vs Gemma 4 26B A4B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think· Gemma 4 26B A4B

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 80 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 82.1 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 96% to 44.1%. Gemma 4 26B A4B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think gives you the larger context window at 2M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 26B A4B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleGoogle
PricePricing unavailableFree*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context2M256K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemini 3 Pro Deep ThinkGemma 4 26B A4B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.077%
BrowseComp87%
OSWorld-Verified73%
CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins
HumanEval91%
SWE-bench Verified58%
LiveCodeBench58%77.1%
Multimodal & GroundedGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
MMMU-Pro95%73.8%
OfficeQA Pro95%
ReasoningGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
MuSR93%
BBH95%64.8%
LongBench v294%
MRCRv296%44.1%
ARC-AGI-245.1%
KnowledgeGemini 3 Pro Deep Think wins
MMLU99%
GPQA97%82.3%
SuperGPQA95%
MMLU-Pro81%82.6%
HLE32%17.2%
FrontierScience88%
SimpleQA95%
HLE w/o tools8.7%
Instruction Following
IFEval89%
Multilingual
MGSM92%
MMLU-ProX85%
Mathematics
AIME 202399%
AIME 202499%
HMMT Feb 202497%
HMMT Feb 202596%
BRUMO 202596%
MATH-50092%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Gemma 4 26B A4B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think is ahead overall, 80 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 96% and 44.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Gemma 4 26B A4B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.4 versus 56.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Gemma 4 26B A4B?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.1 versus 58. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Gemma 4 26B A4B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 82.1 versus 44.1. Inside this category, MRCRv2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think or Gemma 4 26B A4B?

Gemini 3 Pro Deep Think has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 73.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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