Noometry

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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.9

Rank #301 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 6 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 35.5 to 22.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index29.930.8
Released2024-10-032025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked2143

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Coding12181322
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%
LiveBench Coding—39.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —, Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%

Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts12091340
DTBench50%52.5%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.04
LiveBench—50%

Math Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.6%22.5%
LMArena Math12071312
LiveBench Math—55.4%
MATH Level 5—74%

Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond33%47.7%
LMArena Expert11851304
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115), Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision10441164
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English12151334
LMArena Chinese12311346
LMArena French12341368
LMArena German12061362
LMArena Japanese11501287
LMArena Korean11401308
LMArena Russian12361349
LMArena Spanish12121349

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following11991321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query12191333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Flash 8BGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text12261358
LMArena Creative Writing12181346
LMArena Multi-Turn11851345
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.9 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B and Gemma 3 27B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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