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Gemma 4 26B A4B

The mixture-of-experts Gemma 4. Nearly the memory of the 31B but with only 3.8B active parameters, so it serves many more tokens per second.

moechatvisionfast

Overview

Gemma 4 26B A4B uses 128 experts plus one shared expert, with 8 active per token, for 3.8B active parameters out of 26B. Google describes it as running almost as fast as a 4B model.

Hardware fit

MXFP4 and UD-Q4_K_XL are around 17 GB, and Q8_0 is 27.3 GB. It is a good choice for high-traffic chat on 24 to 48 GB cards.

QuantizationWeights
MXFP416.6 GB
UD-Q4_K_XL17.0 GB
Q8_027.3 GB

Sizes are the GGUF file sizes from unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF. Budget extra VRAM for the KV cache, which grows with context size and parallel requests.

Deploying on Loadcore

  1. In the console, open Models and search for unsloth/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-GGUF.
  2. Pick the quantization that fits the target server and start the download.
  3. Start an instance with the context size you need and GPU layers set to offload the full model.
  4. Point your tools at http://your-server:9090/v1 with your personal key.

Recommended settings

ParameterValue
temperature1.0
top_p0.95
top_k64
repeat_penalty1.0
min_p0.0

Same recommended defaults as Gemma 4 31B.

Source: google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it.