gemma-4-26B-A4B-it vs Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

google · A · Open weights
Params
26.5 B
Context
—
30d
9.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 26.5 B 8.3 B
Architecture Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 9,441,586 5,033,876
Downloads all time 72.3 M 106.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-03-11 2025-01-26
API input price / 1M tokens $0.077 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.26 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.33 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.043 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 16.7 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index 39.3 not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index 2.9 not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 235,929 not on OpenRouter
API providers 13 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

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

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it $0.33

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

13.1 M5.0 M
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct A overtook B on 1 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it · fp16 61.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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