Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Longcat Flash Chat

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Longcat Flash Chat Meituan

42.1

Rank #120 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Longcat Flash Chat in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Longcat Flash Chat leads 43.5 to 22.5.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Longcat Flash Chat specifications
Gemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
ProviderGoogleMeituan
Noometry Index30.842.1
Released2025-03-11—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4319

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Category by category

Coding Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#87)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Coding13221471
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
SciCode21.2%—
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Longcat Flash Chat: 19.0 (#272)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%43.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401440
NYT Connections (extended)—17.7%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Longcat Flash Chat: 39.4 (#107)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Math13121442
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Longcat Flash Chat: 40.6 (#116)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Expert13041454
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Longcat Flash Chat: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Longcat Flash Chat: 51.9 (#101)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Non-English13341404
LMArena Chinese13461465
LMArena French13681456
LMArena German13621408
LMArena Japanese12871373
LMArena Korean13081371
LMArena Russian13491395
LMArena Spanish13491445

Instruction Following Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Longcat Flash Chat: 74.4 (#96)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Instruction Following13211411
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Longcat Flash Chat: 43.5 (#93)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Longer Query13331425
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Longcat Flash Chat leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Longcat Flash Chat: 61.0 (#91)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BLongcat Flash Chat
LMArena Text13581427
LMArena Creative Writing13461388
LMArena Multi-Turn13451418
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Longcat Flash Chat?

Longcat Flash Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Longcat Flash Chat better for coding?

Longcat Flash Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Longcat Flash Chat share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Longcat Flash Chat has 19.

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