Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemma 3 27B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 60× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 46.1 to 16.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 85.8% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.6.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index50.130.5
Released2026-02-172025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.08
Output $ / M tokens$15$0.16
Results tracked5743

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
SciCode46.8%21.2%
LMArena Coding15041322
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
LMArena WebDev1521—
WeirdML66.1%—
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
ALE-Bench1,327—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
CritPt3.1%0%
Chess Puzzles13%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851340
DTBench89.9%52.5%
LMCA46.5%12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25130.04
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
ForecastBench62—
LiveBench—50%

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%22.5%
LMArena Math14631312
ProofBench45%—
LiveBench Math—55.4%
MATH Level 5—74%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond87.4%47.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%7.4%
LMArena Expert15001303
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Confabulations—40.3%

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision12831165
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English14401334
LMArena Chinese14911347
LMArena French14651368
LMArena German14281362
LMArena Japanese14191287
LMArena Korean14111308
LMArena Russian14401349
LMArena Spanish14651348

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following14761321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query14791333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Text14581358
LMArena Creative Writing14351346
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18101266
LMArena Multi-Turn14641344
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench 41207—
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Gemma 3 27B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 60× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.6's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.6 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 Sonnet 4.6 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Gemma 3 27B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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