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# Google: Gemma 3 27B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Google: Gemma 3 27B: $0.080/M in, $0.160/M out. Independent capability scores, and alternatives compared under recorded workload and capability requirements.

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MODEL PROOF

# Gemma 3 27B

Google · 12 Mar 2025

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

TRADE-OFF

## A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.

 **$0.100** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Serving precision differs between offers.

[gpt-oss-120b](/models/openai__gpt-oss-120b/) · Δ score 7.6 points · 35% lower measured price

 - no image input

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [LMArena · cc-by-4.0](https://huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset) Independent LMArena score 1,357.8 ± 3.66 · 46,425 votes
 Context window 131.07K
 Maximum output 117.96K
 Input modalities text, image
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.080 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $0.160 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.080 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.160 /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.119/M from Novita.

 4 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.86% | Input $0.080 | Output $0.160 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.56% |
| Seller Parasail parasail/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M $0.040 Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 117,964 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.94% | Input $0.080 | Output $0.450 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.90% |
| Seller Nebius nebius/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 110,000 tokens Output limit 99,000 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.57% | Input $0.100 | Output $0.300 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.00% |
| Seller Novita novita/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 98,304 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 98.67% | Input $0.119 | Output $0.200 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 94.17% |

### Independent scores

| LMArena Elo | 1357.8 default |
| --- | --- |

LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 117K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-08-31 |
| Open weights | Unknown |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |

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,...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Gemma 3 27B cost?

$0.080/M in, $0.160/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Gemma 3 27B have an independent quality score?

Gemma 3 27B has an LMArena score in this catalogue.

 What beats Gemma 3 27B?

gpt-oss-120b has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Gemma 3 27B?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Is the cheapest Gemma 3 27B endpoint the same product?

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.119/M from Novita.

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- Where this model appears [significance](/significance/)
- Where this model appears [cheapest-at](/cheapest-at/)

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