Gemma 4 26B A4B vs MiniMax M2.7

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· MiniMax M2.7

Quick Verdict

Pick MiniMax M2.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

MiniMax M2.7 has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 66 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

MiniMax M2.7 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $1.20 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. Gemma 4 26B A4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M2.7 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 200K for MiniMax M2.7.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*$0.30 / $1.20
SpeedN/A45 t/s
TTFTN/A2.53s
Context256K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BMiniMax M2.7
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.057%
Tau2-Airline80.0%
Tau2-Telecom84.8%
PinchBench89.8%
BFCL v470.6%
Toolathlon46.3%
MLE-Bench Lite66.6%
MM-ClawBench62.7%
Claw-Eval51.9%
CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins
LiveCodeBench77.1%
SWE-bench Verified*75.4%
SWE-bench Pro56.2%
SWE Multilingual76.5%
Multi-SWE Bench52.7%
VIBE-Pro55.6%
NL2Repo39.8%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro73.8%
GDPval-AA1495
Reasoning
BBH64.8%
MRCRv244.1%
Knowledge
GPQA82.3%
MMLU-Pro82.6%
HLE17.2%
HLE w/o tools8.7%
GPQA-D86.2%
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)80.8%
Instruction Following
IFBench75.7%
Multilingual
Coming soon
Mathematics
AIME25 (Arcee)80.0%
Frequently Asked Questions (2)

Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or MiniMax M2.7?

MiniMax M2.7 is ahead overall, 66 to 64.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 26B A4B or MiniMax M2.7?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.1 versus 56.2. MiniMax M2.7 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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