Noometry

Model comparison

Gemma 3 27B vs o1-mini

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Gemma 3 27B Google

30.5

Rank #277 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

33.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 5 categories and o1-mini in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where o1-mini leads 35.1 to 22.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Reasoning: 43.8% for Gemma 3 27B and 72.3% for o1-mini.
  • Gemma 3 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemma 3 27Bo1-mini
ProviderGoogleOpenAI
Noometry Index30.533.7
Released2025-03-112024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.08—
Output $ / M tokens$0.16—
Results tracked4339

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

Gemma 3 27B: 22.1 (#329), o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
Aider Polyglot4.9%32.9%
LiveBench Coding39.9%48%
LMArena Coding13221362
SciCode21.2%—
WeirdML—36.3%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Gemma 3 27B: 24.9 (#105), o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard29.5%—
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 16.3 (#297), o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LiveBench Reasoning43.8%72.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13401333
LiveBench Data Analysis51.5%57.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index130.04135.82
LiveBench50%57.8%
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—18.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark40.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—14%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles0%—
DTBench52.5%—
LMCA12.3%—

Math o1-mini leads

Gemma 3 27B: 24.4 (#261), o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202522.5%46.9%
LiveBench Math55.4%62%
LMArena Math13121358
MATH Level 574%89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Gemma 3 27B: 25.4 (#256), o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
GPQA Diamond47.7%62.4%
Confabulations40.3%18.6%
LMArena Expert13031316
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemma 3 27B: 32.0 (#94), o1-mini: —

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LMArena Vision1165—
GeoBench52%—

Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 47.0 (#150), o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LMArena Non-English13341289
LMArena Chinese13471314
LMArena French13681292
LMArena German13621278
LMArena Japanese12871245
LMArena Korean13081223
LMArena Russian13491283
LMArena Spanish13481302

Instruction Following Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 70.8 (#155), o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LiveBench Instruction Following74.9%65.4%
LMArena Instruction Following13211304

Long Context o1-mini leads

Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#288), o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query13331321
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%—

Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads

Gemma 3 27B: 52.7 (#161), o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

BenchmarkGemma 3 27Bo1-mini
LMArena Text13581317
LMArena Creative Writing13461244
Short-Story Creative Writing79.9%64.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13441314
LiveBench Language34.6%40.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1266—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemma 3 27B or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 22.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and o1-mini share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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