In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Qwen3.8-27B reads more at once: a context window of 262K tokens against 256K.
- Both can be downloaded and run on your own machine.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | Qwen3.8-27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Google · US | Alibaba (Qwen) · China |
| Released | Apr 2, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | Free to download; hosts set prices | Free to download; hosts set prices |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Takes in | text, image, video | text, image, video |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (Apache 2.0) | Yes (Apache 2.0) |
| Size | 25.2B parameters, 3.8B active | 27B (dense) parameters |
| Maker says | “Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.” | “a native vision-language model that understands images and videos, with flexible thinking control” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
None of the boards we follow lists either model yet.
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