Gemma 4 26B A4B vs gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Gemma 4 26B A4B at $0.081 in and $0.391 out and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.086 in and $0.345 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Gemma 4 26B A4B

Google

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.081 in · $0.391 out / 1M

262K context · released 4 months ago

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.07¢

for a client proposal

$0.086 in · $0.345 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Gemma 4 26B A4B at $0.081 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at $0.345 per million tokens.
Largest context: Gemma 4 26B A4B at 262K tokens — about 370 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Gemma 4 26B A4B

0.04¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.03¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Gemma 4 26B A4B

0.07¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.07¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Gemma 4 26B A4B

1.4¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Gemma 4 26B A4B

0.32¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

0.34¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Gemma 4 26B A4B

2.1¢

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Gemma 4 26B A4B

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Gemma 4 26B A4B

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Input / 1M tokens

$0.081

$0.086

Output / 1M tokens

$0.391

$0.345

Cached input / 1M

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$0.043

Specs

Gemma 4 26B A4B

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Provider

Google

OpenAI

Released

4 months ago

October 2025

Context window

262K

131K

Max output

16K

66K

Input

Images, Text, and Video

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

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Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Gemma 4 26B A4B

Google

0.04¢

for this task

45% input · 55% output

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI

0.03¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.07¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 7,127 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Gemma 4 26B A4B has the largest context window here — 262K tokens.

On price, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.07¢.

For images or files, Gemma 4 26B A4B can read them directly; gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Gemma 4 26B A4B pricing →gpt-oss-safeguard-20b pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Gemma 4 26B A4B or gpt-oss-safeguard-20b?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): gpt-oss-safeguard-20b at 0.07¢; Gemma 4 26B A4B at 0.07¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Gemma 4 26B A4B — 262K tokens, about 370 pages.

Can I run Gemma 4 26B A4B and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.14¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.14¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.