Gemma 4 26B A4B vs o3-pro

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· o3-pro

Quick Verdict

Pick o3-pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.

o3-pro has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 67 versus 64. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

o3-pro's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 81.8 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 44.1% to 81%. 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.

Gemma 4 26B A4B gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 200K for o3-pro.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderGoogleOpenAI
PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A27 t/s
TTFTN/A84.93s
Context256K200K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4Bo3-pro
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.069%
BrowseComp76%
OSWorld-Verified68%
CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins
LiveCodeBench77.1%44%
HumanEval80%
SWE-bench Verified46%
SWE-bench Pro55%
Multimodal & Groundedo3-pro wins
MMMU-Pro73.8%70%
OfficeQA Pro79%
Reasoningo3-pro wins
BBH64.8%89%
MRCRv244.1%81%
MuSR84%
LongBench v281%
Knowledgeo3-pro wins
GPQA82.3%89%
MMLU-Pro82.6%75%
HLE17.2%26%
HLE w/o tools8.7%
MMLU88%
SuperGPQA87%
FrontierScience77%
SimpleQA86%
Instruction Following
IFEval82%
Multilingual
MGSM83%
MMLU-ProX80%
Mathematics
AIME 202390%
AIME 202492%
AIME 202591%
HMMT Feb 202386%
HMMT Feb 202488%
HMMT Feb 202587%
BRUMO 202589%
MATH-50089%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or o3-pro?

o3-pro is ahead overall, 67 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 44.1% and 81%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 26B A4B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.6 versus 56.1. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Gemma 4 26B A4B or o3-pro?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.1 versus 48.7. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 26B A4B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 81.8 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, Gemma 4 26B A4B or o3-pro?

o3-pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 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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