# Claude Instant vs Gemma 2 27B

> Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-instant-vs-gemma-2-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 15.3.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.4 |
| Rank | — | 312 |
| Context | — | 8K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.65 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 42.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 36% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1211 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 52.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Instant: 19.6
- Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 48% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 122.08 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 28.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1198 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 47.9% |
| LMCA | — | 7.1% |
| LiveBench | — | 38.2% |

## Math

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 1.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 26.5% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1212 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 27.9% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 75.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 36.5% |
| Confabulations | — | 27.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1172 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1217 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1221 |
| LMArena French | — | 1247 |
| LMArena German | — | 1209 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1175 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1206 |

## Long Context

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1231 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Instant: —
- Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemma 2 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1231 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1241 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1224 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 32.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Instant better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemma 2 27B has enough public results to be ranked (#312); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemma 2 27B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.