Gemma 4 26B
Access Gemma 4 26B through one API key. Efficient MoE model at the lowest price.
Google's efficient open-weight MoE model. 26B total parameters with 4B active for fast inference.
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Maximum tokens in the response.
Real-time tokens
Context Window
262K tokens
Max Output
262K tokens
Input Price
$0.18 / 1M tokens
Output Price
$0.56 / 1M tokens
Strengths
Gemma 4 26B is a mixture-of-experts model with 26B total parameters but only 4B active per token, routing each token to specialized experts for quality without dense-model compute.
Activating just 4B of 26B parameters per token keeps latency and cost low while retaining the breadth of a much larger model.
Supports up to 262,144 output tokens, matching its context window so it can generate book-length documents or massive structured outputs in one response.
At $0.18 per 1M input and $0.56 per 1M output tokens, it is among the cheapest open-weight models for production-scale text generation.
Quick start
Copy this snippet and start making calls with Gemma 4 26B.
const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai/chat', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"model": "google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it",
"messages": [
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Explain API gateways in 2 sentences."
}
],
"maxTokens": 256
}),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data.message.content);Why use Gemma 4 26B through YepAPI?
Gemma 4 26B API: efficient open-weight MoE at the lowest price
Gemma 4 26B is Google's open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 26 billion total parameters and only 4 billion active per token. That sparse design delivers strong quality at the inference cost of a much smaller model, making it ideal for fast, high-volume text generation.
On YepAPI you access Gemma 4 26B through one API key at $0.18 per 1M input and $0.56 per 1M output tokens, with a 262K context window and matching 262K output ceiling for the longest documents.
What is Gemma 4 26B?
Gemma 4 26B is an open-weight, instruction-tuned mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model from Google. It contains 26 billion total parameters but activates only about 4 billion per token, so each request runs at the speed and cost of a far smaller dense model while drawing on the capacity of the full expert set. It is built for text-to-text work — chat, code, summarization, extraction, and reasoning — and pairs a 262K-token context window with a 262K-token output ceiling, the largest in the Gemma lineup. As an open-weight release, it can be self-hosted or fine-tuned, and it is also available as a fully managed endpoint.
Build with Gemma 4 26B via YepAPI
Call Gemma 4 26B with a single YepAPI key on the chat endpoint and skip any Google Cloud provisioning. The MoE routing happens server-side, so you simply send messages and receive completions — no expert configuration needed. Because one key spans the whole catalog, you can lean on Gemma 4 26B for fast, cheap bulk inference and switch to a larger model for tougher prompts without changing credentials. It slots cleanly into chatbots, pipelines, and agentic workflows that need throughput.
Gemma 4 26B API pricing — $0.18/1M input, $0.56/1M output
Gemma 4 26B costs $0.18 per 1M input tokens and $0.56 per 1M output tokens on YepAPI — the lowest input price in the Gemma family. Thanks to MoE sparsity you get larger-model quality at small-model economics, so workloads like mass summarization, tagging, or synthetic data generation stay cheap. Usage-based billing means no minimums, and one balance covers every model on the platform.
Gemma 4 26B for fast, large-scale generation
Gemma 4 26B is the right pick when you need both speed and very long outputs at scale. Its 262K output ceiling supports generating entire documents, datasets, or long code in one pass, while the sparse MoE design keeps each call fast and inexpensive. Use it for real-time assistants, high-throughput batch jobs, and any pipeline where latency and per-token cost both matter.
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Frequently asked questions
Google's efficient open-weight MoE model. 26B total parameters with 4B active for fast inference.
Input tokens cost $0.18 per 1M tokens and output tokens cost $0.56 per 1M tokens through YepAPI. No monthly minimums — you only pay for what you use.
Sign up for a free API key, then send requests to the /v1/ai/chat endpoint.
Gemma 4 26B supports a 262K token context window with up to 262K output tokens per request.
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