Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 4 Argon vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 4 Argon scores higher in 10 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 61.8% for Gemini 4 Argon and 21.2% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index56.530.8
Released2026-09-302025-03-11
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 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9), Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
SciCode61.8%21.2%
LMArena Coding15501322
Aider Polyglot—4.9%
LMArena WebDev1678—
FrontierSWE55%—
LiveBench Coding—39.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8), Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
APEX-Agents82.2%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%
Vending-Bench 213,718—

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47), Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
CritPt27.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts15481340
Kagi LLM Benchmark—40.4%
Chess Puzzles—0%
LiveBench Reasoning—43.8%
DTBench—52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis—51.5%
LMCA—12.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—130.04
LiveBench—50%

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17), Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Math15361312
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—22.5%
ProofBench99%—
LiveBench Math—55.4%
MATH Level 5—74%

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89), Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Expert15531304
GPQA Diamond—47.7%
Confabulations—40.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14), Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision—1164
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 254.4%—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1), Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English15231334
LMArena Chinese16101346
LMArena Russian15371349
LMArena Spanish14971349
LMArena French—1368
LMArena German—1362
LMArena Japanese—1287
LMArena Korean—1308

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2), Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Instruction Following15381321
LiveBench Instruction Following—74.9%

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Longer Query15491333
Fiction.LiveBench—33.3%

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19), Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonGemma 3 27B
LMArena Text15341358
LMArena Creative Writing15311346
LMArena Multi-Turn15571345
Short-Story Creative Writing—79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1266
LiveBench Language—34.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 4 Argon better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 4 Argon or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 4 Argon and Gemma 3 27B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 4 Argon has 21 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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