[whatmodel.sh](../../README.md) / Gemma 3 27B # Gemma 3 27B Google · released 2025-03 · 27.4B params · gemma **score 53.4** ±0.5 · #311 of 732 · from 85 benchmark results across 29 sources Score within the [LMArena (text)](https://whatmodel.sh/?set=lmarena-text&score=set) comparison set only. ## What it's good at ● marks Gemma 3 27B among every model on that task or test, worst to best.
task                vs the others         rank  counts  tests
agent tasks         ▁▁▃●█▄▅▅▄▄▂▁   #249 of 313    6.5%      7
coding              ▁▁▁▃▅●█▇▅▄▃▁   #296 of 469     14%     11
chat & writing      ▁▁▁▃▆▄▆█●▇▇▃   #152 of 402    7.1%      6
math                ▁▁▃▅█●▄█▄▂▁▁   #204 of 431     15%      8
vision & documents  ▁▁▂▂▁▃●▂▆▇█▄   #112 of 153     10%     14
agent tasks · #249 of 313 · 6.5% of its score Beats [o3-mini](o3-mini.md), [Llama 4 Maverick (402B-A17B)](llama-4-maverick.md), [DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B](deepseek-r1-0528-qwen3-8b.md) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails [Granite 4.0 1B](granite-4-0-1b.md), [SmolLM3 3B](smollm3-3b.md), [Qwen3-VL 2B Instruct](qwen3-vl-2b-instruct.md) here, though they rank lower overall.
test                             result  vs the others in its run   difficulty            counts  why
Tau2 – airline (maker)            39.0%  ▃·●··▃·····█ beats 1/5     medium · avg 42%        1.4%  at its level
τ²-bench Telecom (maker)           3.1%  ●····█··▄·▄▄ beats 0/5     very hard · avg 13%     1.2%  sharp · noisy
Terminal-Bench Hard (maker)        4.0%  █●··█·█·█··█ beats 1/5     very hard · avg 4.7%    1.1%  sharp · too hard for it
BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive)   29.5%  ▁▁▁▂█●▅▅▆▂▂▂ beats 29/77   hard · avg 31%          1.1%  at its level
τ²-bench aggregate (maker)        16.2%  ●·▄··▄····█▄ beats 0/5     hard · avg 34%          0.8%  at its level
BFCL v3                           59.1%  ▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█●▄▁▁ beats 80/114  medium · avg 51%        0.5%  blunt · at its level
Tau2 – retail (maker)              6.6%  ●····▄··▄·▄█ beats 0/5     medium · avg 40%        0.4%  at its level · noisy
coding · #296 of 469 · 14% of its score Beats [Qwen3-VL 32B Instruct](qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.md), [Solar Open 100B (102B-A12B)](solar-open-100b.md), [Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B Instruct](qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.md) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails [DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat](deepseek-llm-67b-chat.md), [WizardLM 70B V1.0](wizardlm-70b-v1-0.md), [Yi 1.5 9B Chat](yi-1-5-9b-chat.md) here, though they rank lower overall.
test                                result  vs the others in its run    difficulty            counts  why
Aider polyglot (225 exercises, tw…    4.9%  ●·▂▃▅▂▃█▆▄▂▂ beats 1/49     very hard · avg 7.6%    3.1%  sharp
HumanEval (maker)                    87.8%  ▁▁▁▁▂▂▆▆█▅●▁ beats 194/205  easy · avg 83%          1.7%  sharp
Luau Leetcode fully solved (Torpe…   16.3%  ▁▁●▁·▁▂▃▅▃█▇ beats 3/49     hard · avg 17%          1.6%  sharp
WebApp1K-Duo-React pass@1 (onekq-…   19.8%  ▁··●·▁▁▁▆█▇█ beats 1/45     hard · avg 29%          1.4%  at its level
VisEditBench strict pass rate (1,…   43.0%  ▄··█·●··▄█·▄ beats 3/7      hard · avg 33%          1.2%  at its level
LiveCodeBench (version unspecifie…   29.7%  ▁···▁▁●█▇▃▄▁ beats 5/38     hard · avg 23%          1.1%  at its level
WebApp1K-React pass@1 (onekq-ai)     65.5%  ▃▁▁█▁▄●▃▄▇▁▄ beats 15/31    medium · avg 40%        1.1%  sharp · at its level · noisy
MBPP (maker)                         74.4%  ▁▁▁▄▅█▆▅●▁▂▁ beats 78/86    easy · avg 70%          1.1%  typical
SciCode (maker)                      21.0%  ●▄·······▄▄▄ beats 0/5      hard · avg 21%          0.8%  typical
LiveCodeBench v6 (Feb–May 2025) (…   29.1%  ●··▄·▄···▄·█ beats 0/5      medium · avg 43%        0.8%  at its level
BIRD-SQL (dev) (maker)               54.4%  ▂·······▂▂█● beats 8/11     medium · avg 43%        0.4%  at its level
chat & writing · #152 of 402 · 7.1% of its score Beats [INTELLECT-3](intellect-3.md), [MiniMax-M2](minimax-m2.md), [Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B](nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b.md) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails [LFM2.5 1.2B Thinking](lfm2-5-1-2b-thinking.md), [LFM2.5 8B-A1B](lfm2-5-8b-a1b.md), [LFM2.5 2.6B](lfm2-5-2-6b.md) here, though they rank lower overall.
test                                result  vs the others in its run    difficulty           counts  why
LMArena (text)                      1365.3  ▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▆●▇█▃ beats 210/385  avg 1260               2.4%  blunt
Arena-Hard v2.0 hard prompts (sty…   15.0%  ▂·▃●▅·▃█▆▂▂▂ beats 5/22     very hard · avg 12%    1.8%  sharp
AlpacaEval 2 length-controlled       63.4%  ▃▃·▁▁█▇▅·●·▁ beats 21/22    medium · avg 39%       1.6%  sharp · at its level
Arena-Hard v2.0 creative writing …   69.9%  ▆▂▂▆▂▂▃█●▃·▂ beats 19/22    hard · avg 19%         0.5%  sharp · at its level · noisy
IFEval prompt-level loose            83.4%  ▁▃▁▃▁▄▁▁●▃▃▁ beats 16/22    easy · avg 78%         0.4%  typical
IFEval (maker)                       90.4%  ●··▄··█···▄▄ beats 0/5      very easy · avg 94%    0.4%  maxed out
math · #204 of 431 · 15% of its score Beats [MiniMax-M2.1](minimax-m2-1.md), [DeepSeek V3 (Dec '24)](deepseek-v3.md), [Qwen3 235B-A22B (Apr 2025, hybrid)](qwen3-235b-a22b.md) here, though they rank higher overall. Trails [Mixtral 8x7B v0.1 (base)](mixtral-8x7b-v0-1.md), [Olmo 3 7B Instruct](olmo-3-7b-instruct.md), [Phi-4-mini-reasoning 3.8B](phi-4-mini-reasoning.md) here, though they rank lower overall.
test                          result  vs the others in its run   difficulty            counts  why
MATH level 5                   74.0%  ▂▂▅▆▄█▆●▅▂▃▄ beats 63/92   hard · avg 28%          5.3%  sharp · at its level
MATH (subset unspecified)      76.2%  ▃▃█▂▂●·····▁ beats 20/22   easy · avg 82%          2.4%  several runs
GSM8K                          91.1%  ▂▃··▃▂▅█▆●▂▃ beats 19/22   very easy · avg 93%     2.2%  sharp · maxed out · several runs
AIME 2026 (maker)              20.8%  ●·▄▄····▄··█ beats 0/5     medium · avg 40%        1.2%  sharp · at its level · noisy
MATH-Vision (maker)            46.0%  ●█·█·····███ beats 0/5     medium · avg 53%        1.1%  at its level
OTIS mock AIME 2024–2025       22.5%  ▃▃▄▃●▃▇▇█▃▂▅ beats 60/197  very hard · avg 7.2%    1.0%  sharp · noisy
MathVista (testmini) (maker)   67.6%  ▁··▁▄▄▆●▄▅█▄ beats 22/48   medium · avg 60%        0.9%  at its level · small run
OMEGA (math generalisation)    24.0%  ▅···▃●···▃▃█ beats 3/8     hard · avg 24%          0.5%  at its level
vision & documents · #112 of 153 · 10% of its score Beats [DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision (Exp)](deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp.md), [GPT-4o (2024-08-06)](gpt-4o-2024-08-06.md), [GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)](gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09.md) here, though they rank higher overall.
test                                result  vs the others in its run   difficulty           counts  why
Arena vision (style controlled)     1159.9  ▁▁▂▂▂▂▃●▅▅█▇ beats 54/152  avg 1061               1.6%  blunt
MMMU Pro (maker)                     49.7%  █●·█····█·██ beats 1/5     medium · avg 48%       1.4%  at its level
VisEditBench strict pass rate (1,…   43.0%  ▄··█·●··▄█·▄ beats 3/7     hard · avg 33%         1.2%  at its level
InfographicVQA (maker)               70.6%  ▄●·······█·▄ beats 2/5     easy · avg 70%         1.2%  typical
MATH-Vision (maker)                  46.0%  ●█·█·····███ beats 0/5     medium · avg 53%       1.1%  at its level
MMMU (val) (maker)                   64.9%  ▁····▁▁▃█●▆▅ beats 30/53   medium · avg 57%       0.9%  at its level · small run
MathVista (testmini) (maker)         67.6%  ▁··▁▄▄▆●▄▅█▄ beats 22/48   medium · avg 60%       0.9%  at its level · small run
OmniDocBench 1.5 ↓ (maker)           36.5%  ●·█·····████ beats 0/5     avg 31%                0.5%  blunt
VMMU (Vietnamese multimodal under…   39.1%  ▅······▃·●·█ beats 4/7     very hard · avg 36%    0.4%  noisy
VQAv2 (val) (maker)                  71.0%  ▃▅▃●·▃▅·▃·▃▅ beats 5/13    easy · avg 72%         0.3%  blunt · at its level · small run
ChartQA (maker)                      78.0%  ▁··▁▁▁▁▁▂●▅█ beats 11/44   easy · avg 77%         0.3%  blunt · small run
DocVQA (maker)                       86.6%  ▁··●▁▁▁▇█▇▄▅ beats 1/28    very easy · avg 89%    0.2%  blunt · small run
TextVQA (maker)                      65.1%  ▁▁●▄▅▁▃·▃▃▃█ beats 2/24    easy · avg 74%         0.1%  blunt · small run
AI2D test (maker)                    84.5%  ▁▁▅▇▃●·▄·█·▃ beats 17/28   easy · avg 83%         0.1%  blunt · small run
other tests (36)
test                                result  vs the others in its run    difficulty            counts  why
GPQA Diamond                         47.7%  ▁▁▁▁▂▄●▄▅▇█▅ beats 61/211   hard · avg 39%          6.1%  sharp · at its level · several runs
MMLU                                 81.8%  ▁▂·▁·▁▁█·▃●▅ beats 16/22    easy · avg 75%          5.0%  at its level · several runs
BIG-Bench Hard                       83.7%  ▁▄·▁▁·▅█·▄●▁ beats 20/22    medium · avg 72%        4.8%  sharp · at its level · several runs
Medmarks-V mean win rate (19 veri…  0.4610  ▁▄▃▃●▄█▃▅▁▁▁ beats 12/30    avg 0.418               4.4%  sharp
Medmarks-V weighted mean win rate…   46.1%  ▂▃▅▂▆●█▅█▅▃▆ beats 11/34    medium · avg 41%        2.0%  blunt · at its level
MMLU-Pro (maker)                     67.6%  ▄··●···▄··▄▄ beats 1/5      medium · avg 60%        1.9%  at its level
CPTUB average (SpeakLeash, 0-5 ju…   76.1%  ▁▂▂▂▃█▃▆●▄▂▃ beats 72/95    medium · avg 65%        1.6%  at its level
Polish medical board exams, bias-…   59.2%  ▄·▂▂▂··█●▄·▄ beats 9/13     hard · avg 46%          1.6%  at its level
MMMLU (maker)                        70.7%  █●··█···█·██ beats 1/5      medium · avg 69%        1.6%  at its level
RobloxQA v2.0 multiple choice (To…   84.5%  ▁▁●▁█▄▃▃▆▂▂▂ beats 4/49     easy · avg 77%          1.6%  at its level
SimpleQA (maker)                     10.0%  ▄▄▄▆●▆███·▂█ beats 11/32    very hard · avg 6.8%    1.5%  typical
EQ-Bench 3 (emotional intelligenc…  1159.4  ▁·▂▁▄▅●▃█▄▁▁ beats 22/62    avg 1034                1.5%  typical
BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot a…   39.9%  ▁▁▁▁▁▂▂▃▄▆●▃ beats 74/97    hard · avg 31%          1.4%  blunt · at its level
Global-MMLU-Lite (maker)             75.1%  ▂···▂·▂●▂·██ beats 3/12     medium · avg 64%        1.4%  at its level
KCL-Essay vanilla                    23.6%  ▁···▁●▂█▂▃▃▂ beats 4/23     hard · avg 17%          1.3%  typical
HindiGen-v1 3C3H score (Inception…   50.3%  ▁▁▁▁·▂·●▆█▇▁ beats 8/31     medium · avg 46%        1.3%  at its level
Open Persian LLM Leaderboard v2 a…   64.6%  ▂▄▂▃█▄▃▆●▅▂▂ beats 62/81    medium · avg 57%        1.1%  blunt · at its level
MIMIC-CDM full information (4 pat…   75.5%  ▄·······▄●·▄ beats 3/4      easy · avg 71%          1.1%  typical
MIMIC-CDM clinical decision makin…   70.5%  █······█··█● beats 3/3      medium · avg 60%        1.1%  at its level
IFBench (maker)                      32.0%  ●▄·▄······▄█ beats 0/5      medium · avg 40%        1.1%  at its level
MRCR v2 8-needle, 128k (maker)       13.5%  ●▄·▄···█···▄ beats 0/5      hard · avg 22%          1.0%  at its level
Big Bench Extra Hard micro avg (m…   19.3%  ●··▄···▄·▄·▄ beats 0/5      hard · avg 28%          0.8%  at its level
PopQA                                30.9%  ▁▁▁▃▃▃▁●▁▃·▄ beats 15/21    hard · avg 31%          0.8%  at its level
RULER 128k (maker)                   66.0%  ▃··▅▄●▅█▇·▃▃ beats 13/33    medium · avg 59%        0.7%  at its level · small run
FACTS Grounding (maker)              74.9%  ▄········▄·● beats 2/3      easy · avg 72%          0.7%  typical
LongSocialBench (full-context, 4-…   36.5%  ●▂·▄█·▂▂·▄▄▂ beats 2/16     very hard · avg 36%     0.6%  blunt
KCL-MCQA vanilla                     35.1%  ▂···█▂●▆██▆▂ beats 7/23     very hard · avg 29%     0.6%  typical
Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (…   78.7%  ▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂█●▁ beats 247/276  medium · avg 72%        0.5%  at its level · noisy
EuroEval HellaSwag (English), tes…   82.1%  ▃·▁▁▂▁▂▅█●▄▁ beats 77/100   medium · avg 67%        0.4%  sharp · at its level · noisy
WMT24++ (chrF) (maker)               53.4%  █······█··█● beats 3/3      medium · avg 52%        0.4%  blunt · at its level
EuroEval Life in the UK (English …   92.1%  ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▄█●▃ beats 126/146  easy · avg 82%          0.2%  noisy
WMT24++ (maker)                      83.1%  █···█·█··●██ beats 3/5      easy · avg 73%          0.2%  blunt · at its level
Chess Puzzles (Epoch)                 0.0%  ●▁▁▁▁▂▃▃▃▂▁▁ beats 20/137   very hard · avg 5.8%    0.2%  sharp · too hard for it · noisy
Vectara hallucination leaderboard…   97.0%  ▁▁▂▃▄▄█●▃▂▂▁ beats 105/140  very easy · avg 94%     0.1%  blunt · maxed out · noisy
TruthfulQA MC2                       63.9%  ▃▃▂·▃▃·▅●▂▅▂ beats 12/21    medium · avg 60%        0.1%  blunt · at its level
Vectara hallucination leaderboard…   92.6%  ▁▂▁▂▅█▂●▄▃▁▁ beats 67/98    very easy · avg 90%     0.0%  blunt
## How the score was worked out Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard that test is and who ran it. The model's score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its *counts* column above; here it is added up by who ran the tests. [Method](../method.md)
source                                    results  share of the score
Gemma Team (submitted / maker-reported)        18   21% ▇▇
Google DeepMind Gemma 3 270M IT model c…       15   15% ▇▇
2 OLMo 2 Furious                                8   10% ▇
Epoch AI                                        4   10% ▇
Medmarks: A Comprehensive Open-Source L…        2    6% ▇
LMArena leaderboard dataset                     2    4% ▇
Gemma Team (submitted / maker-reported)         5    3% ▇
Roblox LLM Leaderboard                          2    3% ▇
Aider polyglot benchmark runs                   1    3% ▇
WebApp1K models leaderboard                     2    2% ▇
Arena-Hard-Auto v2.0-Preview leaderboard        2    2% ▇
MIMIC Clinical Decision Making leaderbo…        2    2% ▇
Korean Canonical Legal Benchmark: Towar…        2    2% ▇
SpeakLeash CPTUB                                1    2% ▇
Reassessing High-Performing LLMs on Pol…        1    2% ▇
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard r…        2    2% ▇
EQ-Bench 3 canonical leaderboard results        1    1% ▇
BRIDGE Medical Leaderboard                      1    1% ▇
Inception Arabic/Hindi leaderboards             1    1% ▇
VisEditBench: Can Vision-Language Model…        1    1% ▇
Open Persian LLM Leaderboard v2                 1    1% ▇
allenai/Olmo-3.1-32B-Think model card           2    1% ▇
google/gemma-4-31B-it model card (submi…        1    1% ▇
EuroEval leaderboards                           2    1% ▇
LongSocialBench: Do Long-Context LLMs U…        1    1% ▇
Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard                 1    1% ▇
VMMU: A Vietnamese Multitask Multimodal…        1    0% ▇
TranslateGemma Technical Report (submit…        1    0% ▇
Vectara hallucination leaderboard               2    0% ▇
prior: pull toward the middle                        0% ▇
weighted average                                   = 53.4
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([CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)) · Open Portuguese LLM Leaderboard ([Apache-2.0](../../licenses/hf-leaderboard-spaces-Apache-2.0.txt)) · VMMU: A Vietnamese Multitask Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark ([CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)) · TranslateGemma Technical Report ([CC BY 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)) · Vectara hallucination leaderboard ([Apache-2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)) ## How to run it ### Through an API api (DeepInfra) · $0.10/M blended · $0.08 in / $0.16 out per 1M tokens · [deepinfra.com](https://deepinfra.com/google/gemma-3-27b-it) [price source](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/c19ce71bcdad234ca87a7af10cee45375ce811a8/model_prices_and_context_window.json): USD per 1M text tokens, standard uncached input and output. Product: Serverless text generation. API model: google/gemma-3-27b-it. Settings: service tier=standard, batch=no, cache=uncached input. Additional/excluded charges: Tools, cache storage, priority service and other modalities excluded.. Currency: USD. · [context source](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/c19ce71bcdad234ca87a7af10cee45375ce811a8/model_prices_and_context_window.json): provider maximum input tokens; not an intrinsic model maximum or legacy max\_tokens ### llama.cpp (recommended) 1. Install llama.cpp. Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead. [Other ways to install](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/docs/install.md) ```sh # macOS / Linux curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | sh # Windows irm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex ``` 2. Run Gemma 3 27B (Q4_K_M, needs ~16.5 GB, from [huggingface.co/ggml-org](https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF/tree/f94c25afed0072339c5fa3b705a7b4222afe5f62)) ```sh llama cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M ``` 3. Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931) ```sh llama serve -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M ``` Other versions: Q8_0 (~28.7 GB) `llama cli -hf ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF:Q8_0` ### LM Studio 1. Install LM Studio. Open the app once before using the lms command. [Download it (macOS / Windows / Linux)](https://lmstudio.ai/download) 2. Run Gemma 3 27B (Q4_K_M, needs ~16.5 GB, from [huggingface.co/ggml-org](https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF/tree/f94c25afed0072339c5fa3b705a7b4222afe5f62)) ```sh lms get https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y ``` 3. Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name Other versions: Q8_0 (~28.7 GB) `lms get https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/gemma-3-27b-it-GGUF@Q8_0 -y` · 4bit (~15.2 GB, Mac only) `lms get https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/gemma-3-27b-it-MLX-4bit -y` ### Ollama 1. Install Ollama. [Download it (macOS / Windows)](https://ollama.com/download) ```sh # Linux curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh ``` 2. Run Gemma 3 27B (Q4_K_M, needs ~16.94 GB, from [ollama.com](https://ollama.com/library/gemma3/tags)) ```sh ollama run gemma3:27b ``` Other versions: qat (~16.94 GB) `ollama run gemma3:27b-it-qat` · Q8_0 (~33.38 GB) `ollama run gemma3:27b-it-q8_0` ### MLX (Mac) 1. Install MLX (Mac). Apple silicon Macs only, text only. ```sh # with uv uv tool install mlx-lm # or pip install mlx-lm ``` 2. Run Gemma 3 27B (4bit, needs ~15.2 GB, Mac only, from [huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai](https://huggingface.co/Outlier-Ai/gemma-3-27b-it-MLX-4bit/tree/72a610927c5abd65bf1e6159caa4e28e69fca85e)) ```sh mlx_lm.chat --model Outlier-Ai/gemma-3-27b-it-MLX-4bit ``` 3. Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1 ```sh mlx_lm.server --model Outlier-Ai/gemma-3-27b-it-MLX-4bit ``` Model repository and documentation: [huggingface.co/google](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-27b-it) [interactive version](https://whatmodel.sh/model/gemma-3-27b) · [JSON](https://whatmodel.sh/api?format=json&all=1)