The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs Google: Gemma 3 27B ·Anthropic vs Google

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs Google: Gemma 3 27B — head-to-head comparison

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 profile Google: Gemma 3 27B profile All comparisons
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 — Anthropic
Quality
#22 of 61
72based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
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Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
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Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
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per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
—
tokens
Google: Gemma 3 27B — Google
Quality
#47 of 61
37based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#262 of 316
24.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#64 of 340
$0.17
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.08 · Out $0.45
Cache hit price
#62 of 206
$0.040
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#171 of 345
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-opus-4-5-20251101 scores 72 and Google: Gemma 3 27B scores 37 — a 35-point lead for claude-opus-4-5-20251101. They share 2 published evaluations, with claude-opus-4-5-20251101 ahead on 2 and Google: Gemma 3 27B ahead on 0.

Published pricing is tracked for Google: Gemma 3 27B only, at $0.17 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 is proprietary; Google: Gemma 3 27B is open weights under Open weights (restricted use). 5 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 72 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 37 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M — $0.17
Output tok/s — 24
Context window — 262k
Providers 0 5
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 72 37
Coding Index 78 —
Mathematics Index 86 47
Science Index 89 44
Reasoning Index 58 40
Agentic Index 78 —
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-opus-4-5-20251101 · marker = Google: Gemma 3 27B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond86 / 49
MATH / AIME86 / 20

Right-hand figures read claude-opus-4-5-20251101 / Google: Gemma 3 27B. claude-opus-4-5-20251101 leads on 2 of 2, Google: Gemma 3 27B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Text Arena 1,450 —
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469 —
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Input $/1M — $0.08
Output $/1M — $0.45
Blended $/1M — $0.17
Cache read $/1M — $0.040
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Context window — 262k
Max output tokens — 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemma 3 27B
Output tokens/s — 24
Time to first token — 0.9s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

5 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-opus-4-5-20251101 blendedclaude-opus-4-5-20251101 tok/s Google: Gemma 3 27B blendedGoogle: Gemma 3 27B tok/s
Parasail — — $0.17 54
Novita — — $0.14 32
DeepInfra — — $0.10 22
Phala — — $0.23 15
Nebius — — $0.15 12

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →