Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Mistral Small 4: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

Comparison of the Gemma 4 26B A4B and Mistral Small 4 releases: 2 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 4 models.

For output speed, Mistral Small 4 is fastest: Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) at 172 t/s, against Gemma 4 26B A4B (Non-reasoning) at 119 t/s for Gemma 4 26B A4B.

Model Playground

Releases compared


	Mistral Small 4	Gemma 4 26B A4B	Gemma 4 26B A4B (non-reasoning)	Mistral Small 4 (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	4	--	--	--
Finance & Accounting	12	--	--	--
Strategy & Ops	7	--	--	--
Legal	12	--	--	--
Healthcare & Medical	9	--	--	--
Engineering	13	--	--	--
Economics	12	--	--	--
AA-Briefcase v1.1	241	316	--	--
AutomationBench-AA	1.0%	1.9%	--	--
Terminal-Bench 4.0	0.0%	--	--	--
FrontierCode 2.0	0.0%	--	--	--
AA-Omniscience v1.1	−31	--	--	--
GDP.pdf	0.0%	--	--	--
HLE-Diamond	4.4%	--	--	--
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	0.0%	--	--	--
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	0.0%	--	--	--

Cost per TaskUSD	$0.04	--	--	--
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.15	$0.10	$0.115	$0.15
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.60	$0.34	$0.40	$0.60
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.015	$0.05	$0.06	$0.015
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	--	--	--	--

Output SpeedTokens/s	172	100	119	162
Time to First Tokens	0.83	0.95	0.97	0.88
Time to First Answer Tokens	12.48	20.96	0.97	0.88
End-to-End Response Times	15.40	25.97	5.16	3.96
Time per Tasks	75.86	--	--	--

Context Window	256k	256k	256k	256k
Creator	Mistral	Google	Google	Mistral
License	Open	Open	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text and image
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers		+4	+5

Updated

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Mistral Small 4: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Speed

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes