Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Gemma 2 27B

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Gemma 2 27B Google

29.4

Rank #312 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 8 categories and Gemma 2 27B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 64.4 to 19.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for Gemini 3 Pro and 1.4% for Gemma 2 27B.
  • Gemma 2 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Gemma 2 27B specifications
Gemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
ProviderGoogleGoogle
Noometry Index54.829.4
Released2025-11-182024-06-24
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—8K
Max output—2K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.65
Output $ / M tokens—$0.65
Results tracked6734

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Gemma 2 27B: 34.1 (#246)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Coding14811211
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
LMArena WebDev1440—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—42.8%
LiveBench Coding—36%
BigCodeBench Complete—52.5%
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Gemma 2 27B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Gemma 2 27B: 15.3 (#315)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Hard Prompts14801198
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92122.08
ARC-AGI-231.1%—
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
ARC-AGI-175%—
CritPt6.9%—
Chess Puzzles31%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning—28.1%
DTBench—48%
LiveBench Data Analysis—47.9%
LMCA—7.1%
ForecastBench61.2—
LiveBench—38.2%

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Gemma 2 27B: 10.7 (#311)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%1.4%
LMArena Math14761212
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67%—
ProofBench20%—
Omni-MATH55.5%—
LiveBench Math—26.5%
MATH Level 5—27.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)37.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)18.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Gemma 2 27B: 19.0 (#280)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
GPQA Diamond92.6%36.5%
LMArena Expert14751172
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Confabulations—27.1%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—
MMLU—75.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Gemma 2 27B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Vision1305—
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Gemma 2 27B: 38.6 (#226)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Non-English14741217
LMArena Chinese15231221
LMArena French14921247
LMArena German15151209
LMArena Japanese15101175
LMArena Korean14481174
LMArena Russian14931234
LMArena Spanish14701228

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Gemma 2 27B: 60.5 (#249)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Instruction Following14581206
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.1%
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Gemma 2 27B: 37.3 (#218)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Longer Query14711231
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Gemma 2 27B: 44.2 (#225)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProGemma 2 27B
LMArena Text14791231
LMArena Creative Writing14821241
LMArena Multi-Turn14841224
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1525—
WildBench85.9%—
LiveBench Language—32.6%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Gemma 2 27B?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Gemma 2 27B better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Gemma 2 27B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Gemma 2 27B has 34.

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