Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen3.6 Plus

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· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 26B A4B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 64. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 62 against 44.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 17.2% to 28.8%. 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.

Qwen3.6 Plus gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 256K for Gemma 4 26B A4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context256K1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGemma 4 26B A4BQwen3.6 Plus
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.061.6%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
OSWorld-Verified62.5%
CodingGemma 4 26B A4B wins
LiveCodeBench77.1%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE-bench Pro56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro73.8%78.8%
MMMU86.0%
RealWorldQA85.4%
OmniDocBench 1.591.2%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.8%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)84.2%
MathVision88.0%
We-Math89.0%
DynaMath88.0%
MStar83.3%
SimpleVQA67.3%
ChatCVQA81.5%
MMLongBench-Doc62.0%
CC-OCR83.4%
AI2D_TEST94.4%
CountBench97.6%
RefCOCO (avg)93.5%
ODINW1351.8%
ERQA65.7%
VideoMMMU84.0%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
ReasoningQwen3.6 Plus wins
BBH64.8%
MRCRv244.1%
AI-Needle68.3%
LongBench v262%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
GPQA82.3%90.4%
MMLU-Pro82.6%88.5%
HLE17.2%28.8%
HLE w/o tools8.7%
SuperGPQA71.6%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
Instruction Following
IFEval94.3%
IFBench74.2%
Multilingual
MMLU-ProX84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 64. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 17.2% and 28.8%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 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 Qwen3.6 Plus?

Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.1 versus 64.9. Qwen3.6 Plus stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for reasoning, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 44.1. Gemma 4 26B A4B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Gemma 4 26B A4B or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 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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