Gemma 3 27B

Google released 2025-03-12

$0.172 per million tokens, balanced

Gemma 4 31B is both better and cheaper.

It scores +22.3 higher and costs 7% less ($0.160/M against $0.172/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is cheaper still (39% less) but drops no image input.

Every price dimension

Input$0.080/M
Output$0.450/M
Cached input$0.040/M

Independent scores

Intelligence7.4
Coding10.1
Agentic0.3
LMArena Elo1358.3default

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

Capability

Context window262K
Max output131K
Input modestext, image
Tool useyes
Reasoningno
Knowledge cutoff2024-08-31

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-08-24
Quality dataverified

Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities,...

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