Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Grok 4.1

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Grok 4.1 xAI

41.5

Rank #134 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4.1 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4.1 leads 43.2 to 27.6.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index30.841.5
Released2025-03-112025-11-17
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4319

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Grok 4.1: 33.7 (#253)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Coding13221445
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1214
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Grok 4.1: 34.1 (#49)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—
Cybench—39%

Reasoning Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Grok 4.1: 29.5 (#91)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts13401435
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Grok 4.1: 38.9 (#120)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Math13121422
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Grok 4.1: 39.5 (#133)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Expert13041417
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Grok 4.1: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Grok 4.1: 53.4 (#68)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Non-English13341425
LMArena Chinese13461465
LMArena French13681448
LMArena German13621446
LMArena Japanese12871397
LMArena Korean13081407
LMArena Russian13491434
LMArena Spanish13491438

Instruction Following Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Grok 4.1: 73.8 (#111)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Instruction Following13211400
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Grok 4.1: 43.2 (#100)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Longer Query13331416
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4.1 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Grok 4.1: 62.4 (#75)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.1
LMArena Text13581437
LMArena Creative Writing13461411
LMArena Multi-Turn13451437
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Grok 4.1?

Grok 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Grok 4.1 better for coding?

Grok 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.7 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Grok 4.1 share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.1 has 19.

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