# Gemma 2 27B vs Grok 4

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2-27b-vs-grok-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Grok 4 leads 46.5 to 10.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.4% for Gemma 2 27B and 84% for Grok 4.
- Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 47.8 |
| Rank | 302 | 49 |
| Context | 8K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.65 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.65 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 2 27B: 33.5 (#243)
- Grok 4: 49.9 (#44)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1211 | 1408 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 79.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 45.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 36% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 52.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2 27B: —
- Grok 4: 32.1 (#62)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2 27B: 14.8 (#313)
- Grok 4: 36.9 (#59)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1199 | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 122.06 | 146.46 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 16% |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 73.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 66.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 28% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 48% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 47.9% | — |
| LMCA | 7.1% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.9 |
| LiveBench | 38.2% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2 27B: 10.0 (#306)
- Grok 4: 46.5 (#58)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.4% | 84% |
| LMArena Math | 1212 | 1422 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 26.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 27.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2 27B: 18.9 (#275)
- Grok 4: 53.7 (#50)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.5% | 87% |
| Confabulations | 27.1% | 12.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1172 | 1417 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |
| MMLU | 75.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 2 27B: —
- Grok 4: 33.1 (#89)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1211 |
| GeoBench | — | 45% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2 27B: 38.8 (#221)
- Grok 4: 52.0 (#98)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1217 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1221 | 1428 |
| LMArena French | 1246 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1209 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1396 |
| LMArena Korean | 1174 | 1376 |
| LMArena Russian | 1234 | 1409 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1228 | 1419 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2 27B: 60.7 (#244)
- Grok 4: 79.4 (#4)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1206 | 1387 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 58.1% | — |
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#213)
- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1231 | 1409 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 94.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2 27B: 44.4 (#220)
- Grok 4: 58.7 (#111)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1231 | 1412 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1241 | 1397 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1224 | 1416 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 76.9% |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 32.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2 27B better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2 27B or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.9 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2 27B and Grok 4 share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2 27B has 34 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.