Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Gemma 3 27B

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 3 27B in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 24.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 22.5% for Gemma 3 27B.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

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Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 3 27B specifications
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index34.830.5
Released2024-12-062025-03-11
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.08
Output $ / M tokens—$0.16
Results tracked5443

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308), Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
Aider Polyglot38.2%4.9%
LiveBench Coding63.4%39.9%
LMArena Coding13511322
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)13.5%—
SciCode—21.2%
WeirdML25.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete59.9%—
CadEval30%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85), Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—29.5%
TheAgentCompany11.4%—

Reasoning Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308), Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.8%40.4%
LiveBench Reasoning78.2%43.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13461340
DTBench63.2%52.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis69.4%51.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index135.36130.04
LiveBench66.9%50%
ARC-AGI-21.3%—
SimpleBench31.1%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval1.1%—
LMCA—12.3%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127), Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%22.5%
LiveBench Math75.8%55.4%
LMArena Math13511312
MATH Level 582.2%74%
Omni-MATH45.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207), Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
GPQA Diamond64.1%47.7%
Confabulations12.4%40.3%
LMArena Expert13401303
Humanity's Last Exam6.6%—
MMLU-Pro73.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.4%
GPQA (HELM)55.6%—
MMLU79.7%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74), Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Vision11581165
GeoBench77%52%

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144), Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Non-English13421334
LMArena Chinese13731347
LMArena French13901368
LMArena German13541362
LMArena Japanese12931287
LMArena Korean13141308
LMArena Russian13511349
LMArena Spanish13631348

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91), Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
LiveBench Instruction Following85.8%74.9%
LMArena Instruction Following13361321
IFEval84.1%—

Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198), Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%33.3%
LMArena Longer Query13451333

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184), Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)Gemma 3 27B
LMArena Text13541358
LMArena Creative Writing13401346
Short-Story Creative Writing73.8%79.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11281266
LMArena Multi-Turn13501344
LiveBench Language51.3%34.6%
WildBench80%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Gemma 3 27B?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Gemma 3 27B better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.2 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Gemma 3 27B share?

37 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 3 27B has 43.

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