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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemma-4-26b-A4b-IT

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Gemma-4-26b-A4b-IT
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
FamilyClaude 4Gemma
Modalitytexttext
Context window200,000 tok131,072 tok
Max output128,000 tok4,096 tok
Released2026-05-222026-04-02
Input price$3.00 /1M$0.340 /1M
Output price$15.00 /1M$0.560 /1M
Cache read$0.300 /1M
Toolsyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt cachingyes
Claude Sonnet 4.6
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's latest balanced model offering strong coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities with improved instruction following.

Strengths
  • Best cost/quality ratio for agentic workloads
  • Low latency
  • Strong tool calling
Gemma-4-26b-A4b-IT
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
Full spec →

Gemma 4 is Google's most intelligent family of open models, built from Gemini 3 research to maximize intelligence-per-parameter.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Claude Sonnet 4.6
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Gemma-4-26b-A4b-IT — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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