# Amazon Nova Pro vs Gemma 3 27B

> Amazon Nova Pro and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-gemma-3-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 5 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Amazon Nova Pro leads 35.1 to 22.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Short-Story Creative Writing: 60.5% for Amazon Nova Pro and 79.9% for Gemma 3 27B.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Amazon Nova Pro accepts more context: 300K tokens versus 131K.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Google |
| Noometry Index | 31.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 281 | 284 |
| Context | 300K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.08 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $0.16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 35.1 (#229)
- Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | 39.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1322 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.7 (#147)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | 29.5% |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 20.0 (#243)
- Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | 43.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1340 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | 51.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.8 | 130.04 |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | 50% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 52.5% |
| LMCA | — | 12.3% |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 28.5 (#243)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 38% | 55.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1312 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 22.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.4 (#250)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Confabulations | 30.1% | 40.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1304 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 25.0 (#126)
- Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | 1164 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.7 (#223)
- Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1346 |
| LMArena French | 1271 | 1368 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1349 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1349 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 64.9 (#226)
- Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | 74.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1321 |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#205)
- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1333 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 43.9 (#226)
- Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1346 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | 79.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1246 | 1345 |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | 34.6% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Gemma 3 27B?

Amazon Nova Pro and Gemma 3 27B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.0 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Gemma 3 27B?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Amazon Nova Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Amazon Nova Pro does, with 300K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Gemma 3 27B share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.