# Gemma 2B vs Gemma 3 27B

> Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-2b-vs-gemma-3-27b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 2B scores higher in 4 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.6 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 307 | 284 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.08 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.16 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Gemma 2B: 29.4 (#305)
- Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1010 | 1322 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 4.9% |
| SciCode | — | 21.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 39.9% |
| HumanEval+ | 20.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 34.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 2B: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 29.5% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 2B: 18.8 (#275)
- Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 989 | 1340 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 94.2 | 130.04 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 40.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 43.8% |
| DTBench | — | 52.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 51.5% |
| LMCA | — | 12.3% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 35.2% | — |
| HellaSwag | 71.4% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 50% |
| PIQA | 77.3% | — |
| WinoGrande | 65.4% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 2B: 30.0 (#239)
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1009 | 1312 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 22.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 55.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 74% |
| GSM8K | 17.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 2B: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 40.3% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1304 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 42.1% | — |
| BoolQ | 69.4% | — |
| MMLU | 42.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 53.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 2B: —
- Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1164 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 2B: 23.0 (#294)
- Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 958 | 1334 |
| LMArena Chinese | 986 | 1346 |
| LMArena Russian | 937 | 1349 |
| LMArena French | — | 1368 |
| LMArena German | — | 1362 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1308 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1349 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 2B: 48.5 (#302)
- Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 970 | 1321 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 74.9% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 2B: 29.9 (#291)
- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 981 | 1333 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 33.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 2B: 24.0 (#308)
- Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)

| Benchmark | Gemma 2B | Gemma 3 27B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1002 | 1358 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 987 | 1346 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 945 | 1345 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 79.9% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.6% |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 2B better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemma 3 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 2B or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemma 2B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.4 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 2B and Gemma 3 27B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 2B has 23 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.