Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) from Google on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 4.8
Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free)Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by Google DeepMind. Featuring an expansive context length of 262,144 tokens, it delivers near-31B quality with highly efficient inference. Despite its 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B are activated per token, making it an incredibly fast and cost-effective solution.
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Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) accepts 262,144 input tokens.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) accepts text, image and video input and supports reasoning, tool calling and long context.
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