Model comparison
Gemma 3 27B vs Olmo 7b Instruct
Gemma 3 27B and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
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Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemma 3 27B scores higher in 3 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Gemma 3 27B leads 52.5 to 25.8.
Side by side
| Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) | |
| Noometry Index | 30.8 | 30.3 |
| 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 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 22.5 (#334), Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1322 | 1016 |
| Aider Polyglot | 4.9% | — |
| SciCode | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 39.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.1 (#110), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 16.7 (#301), Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1340 | 993 |
| 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 Olmo 7b Instruct leads
Gemma 3 27B: 25.9 (#265), Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1312 | 1018 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 22.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 55.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 74% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 25.5 (#261), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 40.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1304 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 32.6 (#100), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1164 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
Multilingual Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 46.9 (#155), Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1334 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1346 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1349 | 947 |
| 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), Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1321 | 978 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 74.9% | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Gemma 3 27B: 27.6 (#293), Olmo 7b Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | — |
Writing & Preference Gemma 3 27B leads
Gemma 3 27B: 52.5 (#168), Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1346 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1345 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 79.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1266 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 34.6% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Olmo 7b Instruct?
Gemma 3 27B and Olmo 7b Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 30.3), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Gemma 3 27B or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?
Olmo 7b Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 22.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 27B and Olmo 7b Instruct share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 27B has 43 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.