Artificial Analysis
#50of 51
Score 4.9. Best run: google/gemma-3-27b-it.
Intelligence Index: a composite of reasoning, knowledge, maths and coding evaluations.
Gemma 3 27B benchmarks, ranks and price
Where Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL place Gemma 3 27B, what it costs through OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway, and the models either side of it on the consensus.
Read Oct 1, 2026
#73of 85
on the LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 27 across 3 leaderboards.
Source: Artificial Analysis, LiveBench, LMArena and Berkeley BFCL, combined by Rank.ai.
By leaderboard
Where each leaderboard places Gemma 3 27B
LiveBench
Not measured by LiveBench.
Contamination-limited questions refreshed each release: reasoning, maths, coding, data analysis, language.
LMArena
#57of 79
Score 1366. Best run: gemma-3-27b-it.
Blind head-to-head human votes, style controlled.
Berkeley BFCL
#27of 37
Score 29.47%. Best run: Gemma-3-27b-it (Prompt).
Function calling and tool use, single turn to multi turn and web search.
Price and context
$0.17
OpenRouter: $0.080 in, $0.45 out Context window 131K tokens.
Nearby
The models either side of Gemma 3 27B
- #70llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct30
- #71Mistral Large 3 251228
- #72phi-428
- #73Gemma 3 27B27
- #74Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 250726
- #75Gemma 3 12B25
- #76llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v124
Questions about Gemma 3 27B
How good is Gemma 3 27B?
Gemma 3 27B ranks #73 of 85 models on the Rank.ai LLM leaderboard, with a consensus score of 27 out of 100 across 3 leaderboards.
Is Gemma 3 27B better than phi-4?
Not on the consensus: phi-4 scores 28 to Gemma 3 27B's 27. Compare them source by source below, since the leaderboards test different things.
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507?
On the consensus, yes: 27 to 26.
How much does Gemma 3 27B cost?
$0.080 per million input tokens and $0.45 per million output tokens on OpenRouter, the cheaper listing we read. Blended at three input tokens to one output, that is $0.17 per million.
Is Gemma 3 27B good for coding?
It scores 10.1 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, placing it #49 for coding among the models on this leaderboard.
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