Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct API

Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct is a large language model by Google, available on the Venice API as google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it. It runs privately, with zero data retention.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.

Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it`	Standard	Private	$0.13 / $0.40 per 1M

Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	Google
Released	Apr 2, 2026
Privacy	Private
Status	Stable
Open weights	Yes
Context window	256K tokens
Max output	16K tokens
Reasoning effort	none, low, medium, high
Served precision	BF16

How to use the Google Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions with "model": "google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain TEE attestation in two sentences." }],
    "reasoning_effort": "low"
  }'

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