Gemma 4 26B A4B

google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Google DeepMind. Despite 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference — delivering near-31B quality at...

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Free type: Free route

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1Create or sign in to your OpenRouter account.Create an OpenRouter account
2Create an API key in provider settings.Create an API key
3Use the Quick test on the right to test your API key.
4Copy the example request on the right, replace the API key placeholder with your own key, and run it.
5Refer to the example request when using this route in your own project.

Base URL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1
Model ID: google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free

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Example request

curl 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${OPENROUTER_API_KEY}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with exactly: free-model-ok"}],"max_completion_tokens":16}'