Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 26B A4B
64
Winner · 1/8 categoriesQwen2.5-VL-32B
~50
1/8 categoriesGemma 4 26B A4B· Qwen2.5-VL-32B
Pick Gemma 4 26B A4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen2.5-VL-32B only becomes the better choice if knowledge 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 50. 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 49.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 82.3% to 46%. Qwen2.5-VL-32B does hit back in knowledge, 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-VL-32B 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 Qwen2.5-VL-32B.
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Qwen2.5-VL-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Coding | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 77.1% | — |
| HumanEval | — | 91.5% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 73.8% | 49.5% |
| Reasoning | ||
| BBH | 64.8% | — |
| MRCRv2 | 44.1% | — |
| KnowledgeQwen2.5-VL-32B wins | ||
| GPQA | 82.3% | 46% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.6% | 68.8% |
| HLE | 17.2% | — |
| HLE w/o tools | 8.7% | — |
| Instruction Following | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Multilingual | ||
| Coming soon | ||
| Mathematics | ||
| Coming soon | ||
Gemma 4 26B A4B is ahead overall, 64 to 50. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 82.3% and 46%.
Qwen2.5-VL-32B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 60.8 versus 56.1. Inside this category, GPQA 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 49.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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