Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Compare Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B by Google AI against Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B by Qwen, in 77 community votes, google: gemma 4 26b a4b wins 55% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 262K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Web Design: Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins 57% of votes
Reasoning: Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B wins 71% of votes
Image Generation: Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B wins 86% of votes
Conversation: Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B wins 80% of votes
Financial Modeling: Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B and Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B are tied
Analysis: Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4BWinner
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3BRunner-up
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B has the edge overall. In 77 blind votes, Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B wins 55% of the time.
Pick Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B for Image Generation, Conversation, Reasoning. Pick Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B for Analysis, Web Design. Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B is 5.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Input
$0.13
1.9× cheaper
Output
$0.40
5.0× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
Input
$0.25
Output
$2.00
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B is cheaper on both — 1.9× input, 5.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
79%
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B uses 1.5x more lists
Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Qwen: Qwen3.5 35B A3B
58%Vocabulary51%
18wSentence Length15w
0.31Hedging0.39
6.8Bold6.8
3.3Lists4.8
0.00Emoji0.00
0.74Headings0.84
0.15Transitions0.14
Based on 27 + 23 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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