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Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Gemma 3n E4b IT

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Gemma 3n E4b IT Google

37.3

Rank #206 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Gemma 3n E4b IT in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Gemma 3n E4b IT leads 37.0 to 22.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 40.4% for Gemma 3 27B and 31.5% for Gemma 3n E4b IT.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index30.837.3
Released2025-03-11—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4318

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Category by category

Coding Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 37.0 (#198)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Coding13221268
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 19.9 (#247)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%31.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401284
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 35.1 (#188)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Math13121251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 34.2 (#198)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Expert13041246
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Gemma 3n E4b IT: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 43.4 (#183)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Non-English13341285
LMArena Chinese13461309
LMArena French13681330
LMArena German13621311
LMArena Japanese12871272
LMArena Korean13081259
LMArena Russian13491288
LMArena Spanish13491305

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 66.1 (#210)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Instruction Following13211255
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Gemma 3n E4b IT leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 38.7 (#191)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Longer Query13331276
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Gemma 3n E4b IT: 50.1 (#186)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGemma 3n E4b IT
LMArena Text13581306
LMArena Creative Writing13461287
LMArena Multi-Turn13451276
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Gemma 3n E4b IT?

Gemma 3n E4b IT is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.3 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Gemma 3n E4b IT better for coding?

Gemma 3n E4b IT scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.0 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Gemma 3n E4b IT share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3n E4b IT has 18.

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