Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Gemma 4 26B A4B
64
2/8 categoriesQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)
77
Winner · 2/8 categoriesGemma 4 26B A4B· Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)
Pick Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) 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.
Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 77 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 82 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MRCRv2, 44.1% to 82%. 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 128K for Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning).
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| Benchmark | Gemma 4 26B A4B | Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic | ||
| OSWorld-Verified | — | 70% |
| CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| LiveCodeBench | 77.1% | 60% |
| HumanEval | — | 83% |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 60% |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 65% |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 59.9% |
| Multimodal & GroundedGemma 4 26B A4B wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 73.8% | 64% |
| OfficeQA Pro | — | 79% |
| ReasoningQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins | ||
| BBH | 64.8% | 91% |
| MRCRv2 | 44.1% | 82% |
| MuSR | — | 85% |
| LongBench v2 | — | 80% |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) wins | ||
| GPQA | 82.3% | 89% |
| MMLU-Pro | 82.6% | 81% |
| HLE | 17.2% | 29% |
| HLE w/o tools | 8.7% | — |
| MMLU | — | 91% |
| SuperGPQA | — | 87% |
| FrontierScience | — | 81% |
| SimpleQA | — | 87% |
| Instruction Following | ||
| IFEval | — | 89% |
| Multilingual | ||
| MGSM | — | 91% |
| MMLU-ProX | — | 86% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | — | 93% |
| AIME 2024 | — | 95% |
| AIME 2025 | — | 94% |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | — | 89% |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | — | 91% |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | — | 90% |
| BRUMO 2025 | — | 92% |
| MATH-500 | — | 93% |
Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 77 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MRCRv2, where the scores are 44.1% and 82%.
Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.5 versus 56.1. Inside this category, HLE 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 61.2. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5 397B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 82 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 70.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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