Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Granite-4.0-H-350M

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Gemma 4 26B A4B· Granite-4.0-H-350M

Quick Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Granite-4.0-H-350M only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Gemma 4 26B A4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 64 to 22. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Gemma 4 26B A4B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 56.1 against 16.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 82.6% to 12.1%.

Gemma 4 26B A4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Granite-4.0-H-350M is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Gemma 4 26B A4B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 32K for Granite-4.0-H-350M.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleIBM
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K32K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BGranite-4.0-H-350M
Agentic
Coming soon
Coding
LiveCodeBench77.1%
HumanEval39%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73.8%
Reasoning
BBH64.8%33.1%
MRCRv244.1%
KnowledgeGemma 4 26B A4B wins
GPQA82.3%24.1%
MMLU-Pro82.6%12.1%
HLE17.2%
HLE w/o tools8.7%
MMLU35.0%
Instruction Following
IFEval55.4%
Multilingual
MGSM14.7%
Mathematics
Coming soon
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Granite-4.0-H-350M?

Gemma 4 26B A4B is ahead overall, 64 to 22. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 82.6% and 12.1%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Granite-4.0-H-350M?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.1 versus 16.4. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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