Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemma 3 27B
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 300× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 44.4 to 22.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
- Claude Opus 4.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | 2025-03-11 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 200K | 131K |
| Max output | 32K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $0.08 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | $0.16 |
| Results tracked | 48 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1479 | 1322 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | — |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 39.9% |
| ALE-Bench | 674.77 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.34 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 38% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 29.5% |
| GDPval | 43.6% | — |
| Cybench | 42% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1148 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.8% | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1340 |
| DTBench | 80% | 52.5% |
| LMCA | 37.1% | 12.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.12 | 130.04 |
| SimpleBench | 60% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 7.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 7.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 21% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 51.5% |
| ForecastBench | 62 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 50% |
Math Gemma 3 27B leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.9% | 22.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1431 | 1312 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 12.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 55.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 7.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% | 47.7% |
| Confabulations | 17.1% | 40.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1304 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.5% | — |
Multimodal Gemma 3 27B leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1164 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| VPCT | 35% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1346 |
| LMArena French | 1431 | 1368 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | 1422 | 1349 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1349 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1435 | 1321 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 74.9% |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1455 | 1333 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1412 | 1346 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.7% | 79.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1345 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.6% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemma 3 27B?
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 300× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemma 3 27B?
Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Opus 4.1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemma 3 27B share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.