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gemma-3-27b-it vs grok-2-1212 ·Google vs xAI

gemma-3-27b-it vs grok-2-1212 — head-to-head comparison

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gemma-3-27b-it — Google
Quality
#48 of 61
37based on 3 of 6 evaluations
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grok-2-1212 — xAI
Quality
#46 of 61
38based on 3 of 6 evaluations
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Summary

On the Known Good Index, gemma-3-27b-it scores 37 and grok-2-1212 scores 38 — a 2-point lead for grok-2-1212. They share 10 published evaluations, with gemma-3-27b-it ahead on 4 and grok-2-1212 ahead on 6.

gemma-3-27b-it is open weights under Open weights (restricted use); grok-2-1212 is proprietary.

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

At a glance
Metricgemma-3-27b-itgrok-2-1212
Known Good Index 37 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 38 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M
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Providers 0 0
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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.

Metricgemma-3-27b-itgrok-2-1212
Known Good Index 37 38
Mathematics Index 47 38
Science Index 44 50
Reasoning Index 40 50
Openness Index 60 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = gemma-3-27b-it · marker = grok-2-1212 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0), LiveBench (Apache-2.0)

GPQA Diamond49 / 54
MATH / AIME20 / 12
LiveBench50 / 54
LiveBench Coding40 / 46
LiveBench Data Analysis51 / 54
LiveBench Instruction Following75 / 70
LiveBench Language35 / 46
LiveBench Mathematics55 / 55
LiveBench Reasoning44 / 55
MATH Level 574 / 64

Right-hand figures read gemma-3-27b-it / grok-2-1212. gemma-3-27b-it leads on 4 of 10, grok-2-1212 on 6.

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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.

Metricgemma-3-27b-itgrok-2-1212
Text Arena 1,358
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,366
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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.

Metricgemma-3-27b-itgrok-2-1212
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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.

Metricgemma-3-27b-itgrok-2-1212
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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.

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Providers

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Benchmarks — LiveBench (Apache-2.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →