Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Granite 3.0 2b Instruct
Gemma 3 27B and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 29.6.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | IBM | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2025-03-11 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.08 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.16 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 28.3 (#316)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1090 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 20.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 20.5 (#235)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 1073 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 40.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 43.8% | — |
| DTBench | 52.5% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 51.5% | — |
| LMCA | 12.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.04 | — |
| LiveBench | 50% | — |
Math Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.2 (#217)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1117 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.0 (#241)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | 1064 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 27.0 (#278)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 1033 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | 1070 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 1045 |
| LMArena French | 1368 | — |
| LMArena German | 1362 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1308 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1349 | — |
Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 70.6 (#160), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 53.9 (#284)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 1056 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
Long Context Granite 3.0 2b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 32.5 (#268)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1070 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Granite 3.0 2b Instruct: 29.6 (#292)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Granite 3.0 2b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1080 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 1046 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | 1053 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Granite 3.0 2b Instruct?
Gemma 3 27B and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Granite 3.0 2b Instruct better for coding?
Granite 3.0 2b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.3 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct share?
12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Granite 3.0 2b Instruct has 13.