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Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 10 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 58.8 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index52.330.8
Released2025-12-172025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.08
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.16
Results tracked5943

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Coding14601322
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%—
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—21.2%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
LiveBench Coding—39.9%
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
Chess Puzzles40%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651340
DTBench89.1%52.5%
LMCA43.1%12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8130.04
ARC-AGI-233.6%—
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
ARC-AGI-184.7%—
CritPt—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
ForecastBench58.5—
LiveBench—50%

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%22.5%
LMArena Math14731312
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
LiveBench Math—55.4%
MATH Level 5—74%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond89.4%47.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%7.4%
LMArena Expert14621304
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
Confabulations—40.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision12851164
GeoBench88%52%
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English14581334
LMArena Chinese15111346
LMArena French14771368
LMArena German14971362
LMArena Japanese14891287
LMArena Korean14431308
LMArena Russian14801349
LMArena Spanish14691349

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following14371321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query14521333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text14661358
LMArena Creative Writing14571346
LMArena Multi-Turn14711345
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

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

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

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

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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