Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 26B A4B
64
Winner · 2/8 categoriesQwen2.5-72B
60
2/8 categoriesGemma 4 26B A4B· Qwen2.5-72B
Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-72B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or 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 60. 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 coding, where it averages 77.1 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 77.1% to 40%. Qwen2.5-72B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemma 4 26B A4B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen2.5-72B 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 128K for Qwen2.5-72B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Qwen2.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | — | 56% |
| BrowseComp | — | 64% |
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 55% |
| CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 77.1% | 40% |
| HumanEval | — | 75% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 46% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 47% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 73.8% | 64% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 70% |
| ReasoningQwen2.5-72B wins | ||
| BBH | 64.8% | 81% |
| MRCRv2 | 44.1% | 71% |
| MuSR | — | 78% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 72% |
| KnowledgeQwen2.5-72B wins | ||
| GPQA | 82.3% | 82% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.6% | 75% |
| HLE | 17.2% | 11% |
| HLE w/o tools | 8.7% | — |
| MMLU | — | 83% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 80% |
| FrontierScience | — | 70% |
| SimpleQA | — | 80% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 85% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 84% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 79% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 84% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 86% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 85% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 80% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 82% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 81% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 83% |
| MATH-500 | — | 84% |
Gemma 4 26B A4B is ahead overall, 64 to 60. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 77.1% and 40%.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.5 versus 56.1. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro 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 44.1. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen2.5-72B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 73.3 versus 44.1. 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 66.7. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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