MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) ranks higher at 61/100 vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B at 23/100. Capability-level comparison backed by match graph evidence from real search data.
| Feature | Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B | MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) |
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| Type | Model | Dataset |
| UnfragileRank | 23/100 | 61/100 |
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| Quality | 0 | 1 |
| Ecosystem | 0 | 0 |
| Match Graph | 0 | 0 |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Starting Price | $6.00e-8 per prompt token | — |
| Capabilities | 10 decomposed | 11 decomposed |
| Times Matched | 0 | 0 |
Implements a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture where only 3.8B parameters activate per token during inference, despite 25.2B total parameters. Uses a learned gating network to route each token to sparse expert subsets, reducing computational cost while maintaining model capacity. This sparse activation pattern is computed dynamically at inference time based on token embeddings, enabling efficient batching across multiple requests.
Unique: Achieves 31B-equivalent quality through dynamic sparse routing at token granularity, activating only 15% of parameters per token. Unlike dense models or static MoE designs, uses learned gating that adapts routing decisions per input, enabling both efficiency and expressiveness without requiring model-specific quantization or distillation.
vs alternatives: Delivers better quality-per-compute than Llama 2 70B or Mistral 8x7B MoE while maintaining lower inference cost than dense 30B models, due to Google's proprietary expert balancing and routing optimization.
Implements instruction-following and conversational reasoning through supervised fine-tuning on high-quality instruction datasets and multi-turn dialogue examples. The model learns to parse structured prompts, follow explicit directives, and maintain coherent context across conversation turns. Supports system prompts, role-playing, and complex task decomposition within a single conversation thread.
Unique: Combines instruction-tuning with MoE architecture, allowing sparse expert routing to specialize on different instruction types (e.g., creative writing vs. code generation vs. analysis). This enables efficient multi-task instruction-following without model bloat, as different experts activate for different instruction domains.
vs alternatives: Outperforms Llama 2 Chat on instruction-following benchmarks while using 3x fewer active parameters, making it faster and cheaper than dense instruction-tuned models of equivalent quality.
Processes extended input sequences (8K+ tokens) using optimized attention mechanisms that reduce memory and compute overhead compared to standard dense attention. Likely implements grouped-query attention (GQA) or similar techniques to compress key-value cache requirements. Enables coherent reasoning and information retrieval across long documents, code files, or conversation histories without proportional latency increases.
Unique: Combines sparse MoE routing with efficient attention (likely GQA), allowing long-context processing without proportional parameter activation. Only relevant experts activate for each token, even in 8K+ sequences, reducing both memory footprint and latency compared to dense long-context models.
vs alternatives: Processes 8K-token contexts 2-3x faster than Llama 2 70B while using 1/3 the active parameters, making long-context inference practical on standard GPU infrastructure without specialized hardware.
Generates text tokens sequentially and streams partial outputs to clients in real-time via chunked HTTP responses or server-sent events (SSE). Each token is computed and transmitted immediately rather than buffering the full response, enabling low-latency user feedback and cancellation of long-running generations. Supports both streaming and batch completion modes via OpenRouter API.
Unique: Streaming is implemented at the OpenRouter API layer, not the model itself. OpenRouter batches inference requests and streams tokens from Gemma 4 26B A4B as they're generated, allowing clients to consume output in real-time without waiting for full completion. This decouples model inference from client consumption patterns.
vs alternatives: Provides equivalent streaming experience to Anthropic Claude or OpenAI GPT-4 via unified OpenRouter API, but with lower per-token cost due to MoE efficiency, making streaming-heavy applications more economical.
Generates text that conforms to specified JSON schemas or structured formats through prompt engineering or (if supported) constrained decoding. Enables reliable extraction of structured data (entities, relationships, classifications) from unstructured text without post-processing or regex parsing. Supports both explicit schema specification in prompts and implicit schema learning from few-shot examples.
Unique: Achieves structured output through instruction-tuning and few-shot prompting rather than constrained decoding. The model learns to follow schema specifications in natural language, making it flexible across different schema types without requiring model-specific decoding modifications.
vs alternatives: More flexible than OpenAI's structured output mode (which requires predefined schemas) because it can adapt to arbitrary schema specifications via prompting, but less reliable than constrained decoding approaches used by some open-source models.
Processes and generates text in multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, etc.) with comparable quality across languages. Trained on multilingual corpora, enabling translation, cross-lingual reasoning, and code-switching within single responses. Supports both monolingual and code-mixed inputs without explicit language specification.
Unique: Multilingual capability is built into the base model architecture through diverse training data, not added via separate language adapters. MoE routing may specialize certain experts for specific languages, enabling efficient multilingual inference without language-specific model variants.
vs alternatives: Provides comparable multilingual quality to mT5 or mBART while maintaining English performance closer to English-only models, due to balanced multilingual training and sparse expert specialization.
Generates syntactically correct code across multiple programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, Go, Rust, etc.) with understanding of language-specific idioms, libraries, and best practices. Supports code completion, function generation, algorithm implementation, and debugging assistance. Trained on large code corpora, enabling context-aware suggestions that respect existing code style and patterns.
Unique: Code generation is integrated into the same instruction-tuned model as general text generation, allowing seamless switching between code and natural language reasoning. MoE routing may specialize experts for code-heavy vs. text-heavy tasks, optimizing inference for mixed code-text workloads.
vs alternatives: Provides comparable code generation quality to Codex or GPT-4 for common languages while using 3x fewer active parameters, making code generation API calls 2-3x cheaper for equivalent quality.
Learns task-specific behaviors from examples provided in the prompt (few-shot learning) without requiring model fine-tuning or retraining. Analyzes patterns in provided examples and applies them to new inputs, enabling rapid task adaptation. Supports 1-shot, 5-shot, and 10-shot learning scenarios within a single inference call, with quality improving as more examples are provided.
Unique: Few-shot learning emerges from instruction-tuning and large-scale pretraining, not explicit meta-learning architecture. The model learns to recognize and generalize patterns from examples through standard next-token prediction, making it flexible but less reliable than explicit meta-learning approaches.
vs alternatives: Provides comparable few-shot performance to GPT-4 for most tasks while being 3x cheaper per token, making few-shot adaptation economical for production systems that can tolerate slightly lower accuracy.
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Provides 2.5 million manually-annotated object instances across 330,000 images with dual segmentation encoding: polygon coordinates for precise boundary definition and RLE (run-length encoding) for efficient storage and computation. Each instance includes bounding box coordinates in [x, y, width, height] format, category label from 80 object classes, and instance-level unique identifiers enabling per-object tracking and evaluation. Annotations are structured in JSON format with hierarchical organization linking images to annotations to categories, supporting both dense object scenes and sparse single-object images.
Unique: Dual segmentation encoding (polygon + RLE) in single dataset enables both precise boundary analysis and efficient computational workflows; 2.5M instances across 330K images provides scale unmatched by contemporaneous datasets (ImageNet had ~1.2M images, PASCAL VOC had ~11K images)
vs alternatives: Larger and more densely annotated than PASCAL VOC (11K images, ~6 objects/image) and more task-diverse than ImageNet (classification-only); RLE encoding enables 10-100x faster mask loading than polygon-only formats
Provides keypoint annotations for all people in images using a standardized 17-joint skeleton model (head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles) with (x, y, visibility) tuples per joint. Visibility flag indicates whether keypoint is annotated (1), occluded (0), or outside image bounds (0). Keypoints are linked to parent person instances via instance ID, enabling pose estimation evaluation at both individual and crowd-level scales. Annotations follow COCO Keypoints task specification with consistent coordinate system across all 330K images.
Unique: Standardized 17-joint skeleton with explicit visibility flags enables robust evaluation of pose estimation under occlusion; linked to instance segmentation masks allows joint-level accuracy analysis within person bounding boxes
MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) scores higher at 61/100 vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B at 23/100. MS COCO (Common Objects in Context) also has a free tier, making it more accessible.
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vs alternatives: More comprehensive than OpenPose dataset (no visibility flags) and larger scale than Human3.6M (3.6M frames vs 330K images); visibility annotations enable explicit occlusion handling unlike MPII (which lacks visibility metadata)
COCO ecosystem includes community-created extensions (COCO-Stuff, COCO DensePose, COCO Panoptic) that extend base dataset with additional annotations while maintaining compatibility with COCO API and evaluation infrastructure. Extensions follow COCO format and evaluation standards, enabling seamless integration into existing pipelines. Community contributions are vetted and published as official COCO variants, ensuring quality and standardization. Variant creation process is documented, enabling researchers to create custom extensions.
Unique: Standardized extension process enables community contributions while maintaining compatibility; official variants (Stuff, DensePose, Panoptic) are vetted and published, ensuring quality and discoverability
vs alternatives: More extensible than fixed datasets; community variants enable specialized use cases without forking; standardized format prevents fragmentation unlike ad-hoc dataset variants
Provides 1.65 million image-caption pairs (5 captions × 330K images) with natural language descriptions written by human annotators. Each caption is a free-form English sentence describing objects, actions, and scene context without enforced length limits or structured templates. Captions are stored in JSON format linked to image IDs, enabling training of vision-language models for image captioning, visual question answering, and cross-modal retrieval. Multiple captions per image capture linguistic diversity and alternative descriptions of the same visual content.
Unique: 5 captions per image (vs 1 in most datasets) captures linguistic diversity and enables robust evaluation of caption generation variability; 1.65M caption-image pairs provide scale for training large vision-language models
vs alternatives: 5x more captions per image than Flickr30K (1 caption/image) enabling better linguistic diversity modeling; larger scale than Visual Genome (108K images) while maintaining natural language quality vs automated alt-text
Extends base 80 object categories with 91 additional 'stuff' categories (background materials, textures, regions like sky, grass, wall) enabling dense semantic segmentation of entire images. Stuff categories are annotated as pixel-level masks without instance boundaries — all sky pixels are labeled 'sky' regardless of continuity. COCO-Stuff combines instance segmentation (80 objects) with semantic segmentation (171 total categories including stuff), stored as single-channel PNG masks where pixel value encodes category ID. Enables panoptic segmentation evaluation combining instance and stuff predictions.
Unique: 171-category taxonomy combining 80 instance objects + 91 stuff categories enables panoptic segmentation in single dataset; pixel-level masks for stuff enable dense scene understanding without instance boundaries
vs alternatives: More comprehensive than ADE20K (150 categories) and larger scale than Cityscapes (5K images); unified instance+stuff annotation enables panoptic evaluation unlike separate semantic/instance datasets
Combines instance segmentation (80 object categories with boundaries) and semantic segmentation (171 stuff categories without boundaries) into single panoptic prediction task. Evaluation uses Panoptic Quality (PQ) metric decomposed into Segmentation Quality (SQ — IoU of matched predictions) and Recognition Quality (RQ — detection rate). Panoptic masks encode both category ID and instance ID, enabling evaluation of both 'what' (category) and 'which' (instance identity) predictions. Standardized evaluation protocol with server-side metric computation ensures consistent benchmarking across submissions.
Unique: Panoptic Quality metric with explicit SQ/RQ decomposition enables fine-grained analysis of segmentation vs recognition errors; unified instance+stuff evaluation in single task forces models to handle both prediction types efficiently
vs alternatives: More comprehensive than separate instance/semantic benchmarks; PQ metric better captures real-world scene understanding than independent metrics; standardized evaluation prevents metric gaming unlike custom evaluation scripts
Provides dense 2D-to-3D correspondence maps for human bodies, mapping each pixel in a person instance to a 3D human body model surface. Annotations include UV coordinates (parameterization of 3D body surface) and body part indices enabling pixel-level body surface understanding. DensePose enables training of models that predict where each image pixel corresponds to on a canonical 3D human body, useful for pose transfer, virtual try-on, and detailed human understanding. Available from 2020 dataset version onwards, extends keypoint annotations with dense surface coverage.
Unique: Dense 2D-to-3D surface correspondence enables pixel-level body understanding beyond skeleton keypoints; UV parameterization allows transfer of appearance and shape across different people and poses
vs alternatives: More detailed than keypoint-only annotations (17 joints vs millions of surface points); enables pose transfer unlike keypoint datasets; larger scale than DensePose-specific datasets
Provides standardized evaluation metrics for each task (Average Precision for detection, IoU for segmentation, OKS for keypoints, BLEU/METEOR/CIDEr for captions, PQ for panoptic) computed server-side on held-out test set. Leaderboard system accepts structured JSON result submissions in COCO format, validates format, computes metrics, and ranks submissions by primary metric. Evaluation infrastructure ensures consistent benchmarking across all submissions and prevents metric gaming through standardized computation. Metrics are task-specific: AP/AP50/AP75 for detection, mIoU for segmentation, OKS for keypoints, CIDEr for captions.
Unique: Server-side metric computation prevents metric gaming and ensures consistency; task-specific metrics (AP, OKS, CIDEr, PQ) are standardized across all submissions enabling fair comparison; public leaderboard provides transparency and reproducibility
vs alternatives: More rigorous than self-reported metrics (prevents cherry-picking); standardized evaluation prevents metric implementation variations unlike custom evaluation scripts; public leaderboard enables community comparison unlike proprietary benchmarks
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