Gemma 4 26B A4B IT (NovitaAI)

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT sits within Google's Gemma family of open-weights instruction-tuned models, and through NovitaAI it is positioned as a mid-tier option aimed at developers who want a permissive license without paying flagship prices. Compared with peers on the same NovitaAI price table, its input cost is roughly 1.86 times that of Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct, while its output rate matches the larger Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, signalling a balanced trade-off between spend and capability for routine assistant workloads.

Practically, the NovitaAI route advertises a 262K-token context window alongside tools and open-weights tags, making it well suited to long-document reasoning, multi-turn agentic flows, and code or retrieval pipelines that benefit from function calling at extended context. The same model identifier is also exposed through Google Vertex on Zenmux, which gives teams flexibility to compare latency, throughput, or cost across providers without changing application code.