Model comparison

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

31.9

Rank #253 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 39.7 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Confabulations: 13.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 40.3% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Gemma 3 27B specifications
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index31.930.5
Released2024-02-152025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked4543

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239), Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Coding12941322
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
SciCode—21.2%
WeirdML22.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct43.8%—
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
BigCodeBench Complete57.5%—
CadEval34%—
HumanEval+79.3%—
MBPP+74.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137), Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%
TheAgentCompany3.4%—
Cybench7.5%—
BALROG21%—

Reasoning Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332), Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts12961340
DTBench59%52.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index131.73130.04
ARC-AGI-20.8%—
SimpleBench27.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
BIG-Bench Hard89.2%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench—50%

Math Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260), Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202523.1%22.5%
LMArena Math13151312
MATH Level 570.4%74%
Omni-MATH36.4%—
LiveBench Math—55.4%

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228), Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond57.2%47.7%
Confabulations13.5%40.3%
LMArena Expert12791303
Humanity's Last Exam4.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
GPQA (HELM)53.4%—
MMLU86.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72), Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision11611165
Video-MME75%—
GeoBench—52%

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169), Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English13121334
LMArena Chinese13311347
LMArena French13011368
LMArena German12861362
LMArena Japanese12921287
LMArena Korean12981308
LMArena Russian13201349
LMArena Spanish13101348

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180), Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following12971321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%
IFEval83.7%—

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query13081333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167), Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Text13191358
LMArena Creative Writing13331346
LMArena Multi-Turn12961344
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
WildBench81.3%—
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Gemma 3 27B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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