Google: Gemma 3 27B

Google: Gemma 3 27B

google · Released Mar 12, 2025 Efficient
Intelligence #194 / 544
41.8 Our Score
Speed #250 / 257
29.2 tokens / sec
Input #173 / 551
$0.080 per 1M tokens
Output #160 / 551
$0.160 per 1M tokens
Context #207 / 551
131,072 tokens

Analysis Summary

Google: Gemma 3 27B sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #194 of 544 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.080 input and $0.160 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use, function calling, and vision.

Editorial notes

Gemma 3 27B supports vision and tool use at very low cost, but benchmarks show limited reasoning and coding capability, making it best suited for simple structured or classification tasks.

Assessed May 5, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence2.5Technical1.6Value8Content3.5
Intelligence 2.5/10
Technical 1.6/10
Content 3.5/10
Value 8/10

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,..

27B Parameters

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Architecture Detail

Instruct Typegemma

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

10.3 Intelligence Index
9.6 Coding Index
7.2 Agentic Index
20.7 Math Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 42.8% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 4.7% Humanity's Last Exam
MMLU Pro 66.9% Multi-task language understanding
MATH 500 88.3% Mathematical problem-solving
AIME 25.3% Competition mathematics
AIME 2025 20.7% Competition mathematics (2025)
SciCode 21.2% Scientific computing

Technical

LiveCodeBench 13.7% Live coding evaluation
TerminalBench Hard 3.8% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 10.5% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 31.8% Instruction following
LCR 5.7% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID google/gemma-3-27b-it
Providergoogle
Release Date March 12, 2025
Context Length131,072 tokens
Max Completion16,384 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $0.08 $0.000080
Output $0.16 $0.000160

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

95.1%
Avg Uptime
664ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
34.5 tok/s
Best Throughput
5/5
Active Endpoints
Available via: DeepInfra, Parasail, Nebius, Phala, Novita

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