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Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Grok 4

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Grok 4 xAI

48.1

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 27.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 4.9% for Gemma 3 27B and 79.6% for Grok 4.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BGrok 4
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index30.848.1
Released2025-03-112025-07-09
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4348

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
Aider Polyglot4.9%79.6%
LMArena Coding13221408
SciCode21.2%—
WeirdML—45.7%
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%63%
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
GDPval—21.1%
Cybench—43%
DeepResearch Bench—47.3%
BALROG—43.6%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—66.6%

Reasoning Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%73.6%
Chess Puzzles0%28%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401409
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04146.44
ARC-AGI-2—16%
SimpleBench—60.5%
ARC-AGI-1—66.7%
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
ForecastBench—60.9
LiveBench50%—

Math Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%84%
LMArena Math13121422
Omni-MATH—60.3%
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—19.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
GPQA Diamond47.7%87%
Confabulations40.3%12.4%
LMArena Expert13041415
MMLU-Pro—85.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%

Multimodal Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
LMArena Vision11641210
GeoBench52%45%

Multilingual Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
LMArena Non-English13341403
LMArena Chinese13461427
LMArena French13681418
LMArena German13621429
LMArena Japanese12871394
LMArena Korean13081377
LMArena Russian13491410
LMArena Spanish13491420

Instruction Following Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
LMArena Instruction Following13211387
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—
IFEval—94.9%

Long Context Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%94.4%
LMArena Longer Query13331409

Writing & Preference Grok 4 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4
LMArena Text13581411
LMArena Creative Writing13461397
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%76.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13451416
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
WildBench—79.7%
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

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

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.

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