diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it vs Qwen3.8-27B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 September 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
25.8 B
Context
—
30d
841 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
27.8 B
Context
—
30d
7.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it Qwen3.8-27B
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 25.8 B 27.8 B
Architecture DiffusionGemmaForBlockDiffusion Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 841,028 7,508,158
Downloads all time 5.2 M 22.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-06-09 2026-08-05
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $1.88
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $2.03
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.038
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 20.1
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 68.1
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 45.8
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 25
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.8-27B $2.03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.0 M841 K
diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it Qwen3.8-27B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it · fp16 61.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.8-27B · fp16 65.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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