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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

Claude Opus 5.5 grades higher overall (99.5 against 62.1). Gemma 4 26B A4B IT costs 98% less for the same work.

Claude Opus 5.5

by Anthropic · #1 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$4.00
Output / 1M
$20.00

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

by Google · #38 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.070
Output / 1M
$0.34

Better overall

Claude Opus 5.5

Grade 99.5 vs 62.1

Cheaper

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT

98% less, $0.14 vs $8.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5.5

1M vs 256K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,508
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: 1,438
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,811
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: 1,359
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: 1,545
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: 1,483
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: —
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Mar 11, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5.5Claude Opus 5.5: —
Gemma 4 26B A4B ITGemma 4 26B A4B IT: 77.1%v

Claude Opus 5.5Gemma 4 26B A4B ITv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5.5$1,600 /month
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT$27.60 /month

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT saves you $1,572 a month at this usage, $18,869 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5.5Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Made byAnthropicGoogle
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 99.5Strong · 62.1
Overall rank#1 of 67#38 of 67
Input price$4.00 per 1M$0.070 per 1M
Output price$20.00 per 1M$0.34 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-opus-5-5gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT better?

Claude Opus 5.5 grades 99.5 against 62.1 for Gemma 4 26B A4B IT, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemma 4 26B A4B IT?

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT: $0.070 in and $0.34 out per million tokens, against $4.00 and $20.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 5.5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.