Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)
Analysis Summary
This is the free-access version of Google's Gemma 3 27B, offering the same vision capability and moderate benchmark scores as the paid variant but at zero cost. Reasoning, coding and agentic results remain well below current frontier models.
It is a reasonable option for prototyping, internal tooling, and low-stakes content generation where budget is the primary constraint. It is not suited to production coding assistants or complex agentic pipelines given its limited technical benchmarks.
Teams testing open-weight alternatives before committing budget to a premium model may find this a useful, no-cost starting point.
Assessed July 10, 2026
Editorial notes
The free tier of Gemma 3 27B from Google delivers vision support and a usable context window at no cost, with modest reasoning depth.
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DFO Verdict
The free tier of Gemma 3 27B from Google delivers vision support and a usable context window at no cost, with modest reasoning depth.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence Ā· Ink = technical/agentic Ā· Cyan = content & long-context Ā· Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
10.3 Intelligence IndexĀ·9.6 Coding IndexĀ·7.2 Agentic IndexĀ·20.7 Math Index
How Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) compares
Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) ranks #231 of 393 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #137 of 157 for coding, #269 of 300 for agentic tasks. Its 131K-token context window is larger than 57% of the models we list. Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input Ā· light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ā 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on intelligence. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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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,..
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Frequently asked questions about Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)
How much does Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) cost?
Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
What is the context window of Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)?
Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
Is Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) ranks #137 of 157 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) do?
Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) supports image/vision input.
Who created Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)?
Google: Gemma 3 27B (free) is developed by Google and was released on March 12, 2025.
