Gemma 3 27B: benchmark scores, price and ranking
Gemma 3 27B from Google DeepMind is a recent or sparsely tested model with 1 benchmark result on record; it has not been measured on enough benchmarks shared with other models to receive an aggregate rank. This page lists every score we have, based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- Google DeepMind
- Type
- Open-weight / local model
- Open weights
- Yes
- Released
- 2025-03-12 (source: epoch)
- Cheapest API price
- $0.080 in / $0.450 out per million tokens (via openrouter, observed 2026-10-13T21:47Z)
- Aggregate rank
- Not ranked yet (too few shared benchmarks)
Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, Gemma 3 27B is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 1.
Its cheapest listed input price, $0.080 per million tokens, is lower than that of 85% of the 427 models with a listed price.
Gemma 3 27B benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch ECI | 130 | #88 of 204 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 2026-10-13 |
About Gemma 3 27B
Gemma 3 27B is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from Google DeepMind. It was released on 2025-03-12, according to Epoch AI. The cheapest API listing we track charges $0.080 per million input tokens and $0.450 per million output tokens, through openrouter. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where Gemma 3 27B stands
Gemma 3 27B has 1 result so far and shares too few benchmarks with other models to get an aggregate rank. The rank will appear on its own once more scores are published.
Gemma 3 27B, benchmark by benchmark
Epoch ECI puts Gemma 3 27B at 130, #88 of 204. That beats 57% of the models tested, but 26 points short of Qwen 3.8 Max (156). The results either side are phi-4 (130) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet (130). It covers Epoch Capabilities Index: Epoch's own aggregate of ~40 benchmarks. The board median is 127, so Gemma 3 27B is 3 points above it. Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub, captured 2026-10-13.
Release history
The Google DeepMind model released before it was gemma-3-1b-it on 2025-03-12, which scores 42.4. The next one was gemma-3-27b-it on 2025-03-12, at 39.7.
Reading these numbers
The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
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