# Gemma 3 27B vs Grok 4

> Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-27b-vs-grok-4
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 0 categories and Grok 4 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Grok 4 leads 63.1 to 27.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 4.9% for Gemma 3 27B and 79.6% for Grok 4.
- Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | xAI |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 48.1 |
| Rank | 284 | 56 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.08 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.16 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334)
- Grok 4: 50.3 (#46)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | 79.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1408 |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 45.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110)
- Grok 4: 32.3 (#68)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | 63% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| GDPval | — | 21.1% |
| Cybench | — | 43% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 47.3% |
| BALROG | — | 43.6% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 66.6% |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301)
- Grok 4: 36.7 (#65)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | 73.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | 28% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1409 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | 146.44 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 16% |
| SimpleBench | — | 60.5% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 66.7% |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 60.9 |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |

## Math

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265)
- Grok 4: 48.4 (#64)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | 84% |
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1422 |
| Omni-MATH | — | 60.3% |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 19.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261)
- Grok 4: 53.8 (#55)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | 87% |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | 12.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | 1415 |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 85.1% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 72.7% |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100)
- Grok 4: 33.7 (#94)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | 1210 |
| GeoBench | 52% | 45% |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155)
- Grok 4: 51.8 (#103)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1403 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | 1427 |
| LMArena French | 1368 | 1418 |
| LMArena German | 1362 | 1429 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | 1394 |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | 1377 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 1410 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | 1420 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160)
- Grok 4: 79.2 (#5)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1387 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 94.9% |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293)
- Grok 4: 63.1 (#4)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | 94.4% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1409 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168)
- Grok 4: 58.5 (#116)

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Grok 4 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1411 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1397 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | 76.9% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | 1416 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| WildBench | — | 79.7% |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 27B better than Grok 4?

Grok 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 48.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemma 3 27B or Grok 4 better for coding?

Grok 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Grok 4 share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 has 48.