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What should I use if Gemma 4 (Google) is down?

The top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives to Gemma 4 (Google) are Qwen (Alibaba), MiniMax M2 / M2.5, IBM Granite 4.0. Full list and tier rankings are on this page.

Is Gemma 4 (Google) Down?

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Last editorial review: 2026-04-19

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Known issues we've tracked

2026-04-18 BF16 stability refresh -- Google re-released Gemma 4 multimodal checkpoints in BF16 format focused on truthfulness, JSON / tool-call formatting, long-context extraction reliability, and loop resistance. Not a new model version; a quality refresh that fixes specific failure modes developers were hitting in production. If you pulled weights before 2026-04-18, consider re-downloading for the new checkpoints

2026-04•Google DeepMind Gemma page, Hugging Face

Gemma 4 launched April 2, 2026 with improved licensing -- earlier Gemma versions had restrictive use clauses that confused developers

2026-04•The Register, Hugging Face

Function calling support is new -- some users report inconsistent tool-use behavior compared to Llama 3 or Mistral

2026-04•Hugging Face discussions

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Gemma 4 (Google) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

Qwen (Alibaba)

8.8

Alibaba's open-weights + API family -- Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview (Apr 20 2026 CLOSED-weights #1 on SWE-bench Pro/Terminal-Bench 2.0/SciCode), Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apr 16 open-weights coding champion), plus Qwen 3.6-Plus API flagship. Apache 2.0 on most sizes, but the best model is now proprietary

MiniMax M2 / M2.5

8.4

MiniMax's open-weights frontier -- first open model to match Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 10-20× lower cost

IBM Granite 4.0

8.2

IBM's enterprise-focused open-weight family -- Granite 4.0 hybrid Mamba-2 + transformer architecture (70-80% memory reduction vs pure transformer), 3B to 32B sizes, Apache 2.0. First open model family to secure ISO 42001 certification. Nano 350M runs on CPU with 8-16GB RAM. 3B Vision variant landed 2026-04-01

Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot)

8.1

Moonshot's 1T-parameter MoE open-weights flagship -- best open-source agentic coder, rivals Claude Opus 4.5

gpt-oss (OpenAI)

8.1

OpenAI's FIRST open-weight models -- gpt-oss-120b (single 80GB GPU, near parity with o4-mini on reasoning) and gpt-oss-20b (runs on 16GB edge devices). Apache 2.0. Launched 2025-08-05. gpt-oss-safeguard ships in 2026 as the safety-tuned variant

About Gemma 4 (Google)

Tier A (8.3/10). Google DeepMind's open-weights model family -- multimodal, 256K context, runs on edge devices

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