At a Glance
| Vendor | |
| Family | Gemma 4 family |
| Launched | Google released the Gemma 4 family on April 2, 2026 under Apache 2.0, marking Google's most aggressive open-weight push to date. Four deployment-targeted sizes ship in the family, with the 31B Dense variant beating models 20x larger on several benchmarks. |
| Context window | 128,000 to 256,000 tokens depending on variant, with 200K as the typical mid-tier configuration. |
| Pricing | Free to download and self-host under Apache 2.0. Hosted inference is available via Vertex AI, Google AI Studio, and the broader inference-provider ecosystem (Together AI, Fireworks, Groq, OpenRouter). The Apache 2.0 licensing removes the commercial-scale concerns that have slowed Llama enterprise adoption. |
| Access channels | Hugging Face open-weight release, Vertex AI hosted, Google AI Studio for prototyping, NVIDIA NIM microservices, every major inference provider, and direct download for on-device deployment. |
Notable Benchmarks
Gemma 4 31B Dense beats 20x-larger models on MMLU, GPQA, and several coding benchmarks at a fraction of the inference cost. The smaller variants (2B, 9B) target on-device and edge deployment with competitive efficiency.
Strengths
Apache 2.0 licensing (cleanest commercial use of any frontier-tier open-weight family), four sizes covering edge to flagship, frontier-grade efficiency in the 31B Dense, deep integration with Google's deployment surface.
Limitations
Not as long-context as Qwen 3.6 Plus or DeepSeek V4. Behind frontier-tier closed models on the most complex multi-step reasoning. Smaller community ecosystem than Llama.
Brand-Visibility Implications
Gemma 4 will replace Llama in many enterprise self-host deployments because the Apache 2.0 license is dramatically simpler for commercial-scale use. That means brand-visibility gaps that were Llama-specific (poor recall in self-hosted enterprise RAG, weak consumer-app coverage) now apply to Gemma 4 as well. Google's deeper integration into Workspace, Vertex, and Android raises the stakes: Gemma 4 will quietly power features inside products your buyers already use. See Gemma visibility and open-source LLM landscape 2026.
How Presenc AI Tracks This Model
Presenc AI monitors brand visibility on Google's Gemma 4 family as part of continuous multi-platform AI visibility tracking. We sample Google Gemma 4 across representative prompt sets daily, compare against competitor performance on the same prompts, and flag material mention-rate changes so brand teams can respond quickly when AI representation shifts.