Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Trinity Large Thinking

Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.8

Rank #284 Confirmed

Trinity Large Thinking Arcee AI

38.6

Rank #185 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 2 categories and Trinity Large Thinking in 6 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Trinity Large Thinking leads 40.9 to 25.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 21.2% for Gemma 3 27B and 36.1% for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.25 / $0.80 for Trinity Large Thinking.
  • Trinity Large Thinking accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27B and Trinity Large Thinking specifications
Gemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
ProviderGoogleArcee AI
Noometry Index30.838.6
Released2025-03-112026-04-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K262K
Max output8K80K
Input $ / M tokens$0.08$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$0.16$0.80
Results tracked4324

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Category by category

Coding Trinity Large Thinking leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Trinity Large Thinking: 34.1 (#244)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
SciCode21.2%36.1%
LMArena Coding13221381
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
LMArena WebDev—1238
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Trinity Large Thinking: 16.9 (#298)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
CritPt0%0.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401350
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—16.5%
Chess Puzzles0%—
Thematic Generalization—41.6%
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench—15.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Trinity Large Thinking leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Trinity Large Thinking: 37.6 (#149)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Math13121366
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Trinity Large Thinking leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Trinity Large Thinking: 40.9 (#113)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%6.9%
LMArena Expert13041360
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Trinity Large Thinking: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Vision1164—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Trinity Large Thinking: 46.2 (#160)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Non-English13341325
LMArena Chinese13461373
LMArena French13681374
LMArena German13621356
LMArena Japanese12871311
LMArena Korean13081306
LMArena Russian13491337
LMArena Spanish13491357

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Trinity Large Thinking: 70.5 (#162)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Instruction Following13211334
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Trinity Large Thinking leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Trinity Large Thinking: 41.3 (#144)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Longer Query13331355
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Trinity Large Thinking leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Trinity Large Thinking: 53.8 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BTrinity Large Thinking
LMArena Text13581340
LMArena Creative Writing13461320
LMArena Multi-Turn13451342
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Trinity Large Thinking?

Trinity Large Thinking is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Trinity Large Thinking's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Trinity Large Thinking?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Trinity Large Thinking lists at $0.25 and $0.80.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Trinity Large Thinking better for coding?

Trinity Large Thinking scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.1 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Trinity Large Thinking does, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Trinity Large Thinking share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Trinity Large Thinking has 24.

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