# Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemma 3 27B

> Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 300× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-4-1-vs-gemma-3-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 26

## Summary

- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 44.4 to 22.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
- Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
- Claude Opus 4.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 41.0 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 142 | 284 |
| Context | 200K | 131K |
| Input $/M | $15 | $0.08 |
| Output $/M | $75 | $0.16 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73)
- Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1479 | 1322 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | — |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 39.9% |
| ALE-Bench | 674.77 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.34 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 38% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 29.5% |
| GDPval | 43.6% | — |
| Cybench | 42% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1148 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76)
- Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1340 |
| DTBench | 80% | 52.5% |
| LMCA | 37.1% | 12.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.12 | 130.04 |
| SimpleBench | 60% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 7.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 7.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.8% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 21% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 51.5% |
| ForecastBench | 62 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 50% |

## Math

- Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.9% | 22.5% |
| LMArena Math | 1431 | 1312 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 12.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 55.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 7.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% | 47.7% |
| Confabulations | 17.1% | 40.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1304 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119)
- Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1164 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| VPCT | 35% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95)
- Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1346 |
| LMArena French | 1431 | 1368 |
| LMArena German | 1413 | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | 1380 | 1308 |
| LMArena Russian | 1422 | 1349 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1349 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58)
- Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1435 | 1321 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 74.9% |

## Long Context

- Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63)
- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1455 | 1333 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74)
- Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1412 | 1346 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.7% | 79.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1345 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemma 3 27B?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 300× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 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; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

### Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.1 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemma 3 27B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.