# Claude 2.1 vs Gemma 3 27B

> Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-gemma-3-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 2 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 2 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemma 3 27B leads 24.4 to 9.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.9% for Claude 2.1 and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 24.9 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 340 | 277 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 25.8 (#322)
- Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |
| WeirdML | 7.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 39.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1322 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 20.6 (#216)
- Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 52.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.22 | 130.04 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1340 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 51.5% |
| LMCA | — | 12.3% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 50% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 9.6 (#309)
- Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 22.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1312 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.5 (#287)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 47.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 40.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1303 |
| MMLU | 73.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1165 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1347 |
| LMArena French | — | 1368 |
| LMArena German | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1349 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1348 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 74.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1321 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1333 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1346 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 79.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1344 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 24.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Claude 2.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 25.8 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Gemma 3 27B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.