Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Granite 4.0 Micro

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 3 27B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Granite 4.0 Micro IBM

29.0

Rank #318 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 4 categories and Granite 4.0 Micro in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemma 3 27B leads 25.5 to 9.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B and 2.8% for Granite 4.0 Micro.
  • Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper at $0.017 / $0.11 per million input/output tokens, against $0.08 / $0.16 for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
ProviderGoogleIBM
Noometry Index30.829.0
Released2025-03-112025-10-02
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K131K
Max output8K118K
Input $ / M tokens$0.08$0.017
Output $ / M tokens$0.16$0.11
Results tracked438

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—
LMArena Coding1322—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Granite 4.0 Micro leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Granite 4.0 Micro: 19.2 (#265)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
Chess Puzzles0%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1340—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Granite 4.0 Micro: 12.0 (#307)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%2.8%
Omni-MATH—20.9%
LiveBench Math55.4%—
LMArena Math1312—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Granite 4.0 Micro: 9.9 (#304)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
GPQA Diamond47.7%28.3%
MMLU-Pro—39.5%
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—30.7%
LMArena Expert1304—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Non-English1334—
LMArena Chinese1346—
LMArena French1368—
LMArena German1362—
LMArena Japanese1287—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Russian1349—
LMArena Spanish1349—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Granite 4.0 Micro: 69.9 (#169)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—
IFEval—84.9%
LMArena Instruction Following1321—

Long Context Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Granite 4.0 Micro: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1333—

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Granite 4.0 Micro: 46.7 (#216)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGranite 4.0 Micro
LMArena Text1358—
LMArena Creative Writing1346—
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
WildBench—67%
LMArena Multi-Turn1345—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Granite 4.0 Micro?

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index. Granite 4.0 Micro costs 2.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemma 3 27B's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is cheaper. It lists at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.11 per million output tokens; Gemma 3 27B lists at $0.08 and $0.16.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemma 3 27B does, with 131K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Granite 4.0 Micro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Granite 4.0 Micro has 8.

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