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Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs Grok 4.7

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

Grok 4.7 xAI

46.6

Rank #56 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 1 category and Grok 4.7 in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 4.7 leads 55.0 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 21.2% for Gemma 3 27B and 57.4% for Grok 4.7.
  • Gemma 3 27B is cheaper at $0.08 / $0.16 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Grok 4.7.
  • Grok 4.7 accepts more context: 500K tokens versus 131K.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
ProviderGooglexAI
Noometry Index30.546.6
Released2025-03-112026-09-21
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K500K
Max output8K500K
Input $ / M tokens$0.08$2
Output $ / M tokens$0.16$6
Results tracked4321

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Category by category

Coding Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), Grok 4.7: 55.0 (#23)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
SciCode21.2%57.4%
LMArena Coding13221423
Aider Polyglot4.9%—
CursorBench—46.3%
LMArena WebDev—1636
FrontierSWE—29.5%
LiveBench Coding39.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), Grok 4.7: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—

Reasoning Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), Grok 4.7: 40.1 (#49)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
CritPt0%17.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401409
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—76.8%
Chess Puzzles0%—
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%—
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%—
LMCA12.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04—
LiveBench50%—

Math Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), Grok 4.7: 41.1 (#73)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Math13121393
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%—
ProofBench—34%
LiveBench Math55.4%—
MATH Level 574%—

Knowledge Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), Grok 4.7: 38.7 (#130)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Expert13031413
GPQA Diamond47.7%—
Confabulations40.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), Grok 4.7: 28.8 (#107)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Vision1165—
GeoBench52%—
Furniture Assembly—20.8%

Multilingual Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), Grok 4.7: 51.2 (#108)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Non-English13341392
LMArena Chinese13471476
LMArena Russian13491396
LMArena French1368—
LMArena German1362—
LMArena Japanese1287—
LMArena Korean1308—
LMArena Spanish1348—

Instruction Following Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), Grok 4.7: 74.3 (#98)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Instruction Following13211406
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%—

Long Context Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), Grok 4.7: 43.2 (#97)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Longer Query13331416
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Grok 4.7 leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), Grok 4.7: 70.1 (#23)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27BGrok 4.7
LMArena Text13581397
LMArena Creative Writing13461391
EQ-Bench Creative Writing12662007
LMArena Multi-Turn13441389
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%—
LiveBench Language34.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Grok 4.7?

Grok 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemma 3 27B costs 30× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Grok 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Grok 4.7?

Gemma 3 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.16 per million output tokens; Grok 4.7 lists at $2 and $6.

Is Gemma 3 27B or Grok 4.7 better for coding?

Grok 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.0 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.7 does, with 500K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Grok 4.7 share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4.7 has 21.

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