# Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct

> Gemma 4 26B A4B is a Mixture-of-Experts model from Google DeepMind with 26B total parameters and only 4B active per token, offering fast inference at high quality. It handles text, image, and video input, supports 256K context, function calling, and reasoning with configurable thinking modes.

**ID**: `venice/google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it`  
**Creator**: Google  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 256K tokens  
**Pricing**: $0.16 / $0.50 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-04-02  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/venice/google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

**Input modalities**: text, image, video  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, reasoning, function-calling, structured-output, streaming, vision

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "venice/google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| venice-byok | $0.16/M (list) | $0.50/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://docs.venice.ai