Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)
Gemma 3 27B (free) is Google's open-weight model available at no cost, offering vision and tool-use capabilities, but its benchmark scores are weak across reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks — best suited to lightweight or experimental use cases.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 27B is Google's latest open source model, successor to Gemma 2
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Gemini |
| Instruct Type | gemma |
| Parameters | 27B |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
