Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 26B A4B
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Winner · 4/8 categoriesPhi-4
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0/8 categoriesGemma 4 26B A4B· Phi-4
Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Phi-4 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 40. 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 multimodal & grounded, where it averages 73.8 against 46.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 82.3% to 56.1%.
Gemma 4 26B A4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Phi-4 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 16K for Phi-4.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 44% |
| BrowseComp | — | 35% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 34% |
| CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 77.1% | — |
| HumanEval | — | 82.6% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 55% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 73.8% | 54% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 38% |
| ReasoningGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| BBH | 64.8% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 44.1% | 33% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 30% |
| KnowledgeGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| GPQA | 82.3% | 56.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.6% | — |
| HLE | 17.2% | — |
| HLE w/o tools | 8.7% | — |
| MMLU | — | 84.8% |
| FrontierScience | — | 52% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 80.6% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 60% |
| Mathematics | ||
| MATH-500 | — | 94.6% |
Gemma 4 26B A4B is ahead overall, 64 to 40. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 82.3% and 56.1%.
Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 56.1 versus 53.6. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.1 versus 55. Phi-4 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 44.1 versus 31.4. Inside this category, MRCRv2 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 46.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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