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Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Google: Gemma 3 27B — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview profile Google: Gemma 3 27B profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — Google
Quality
#16 of 65
83based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#70 of 338
85.5
Output tokens per second
Price
#249 of 442
$1.12
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.50 · Out $3.00
Cache hit price
#110 of 324
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#63 of 476
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Google: Gemma 3 27B — Google
Quality
#49 of 65
47based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#311 of 338
19.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#73 of 442
$0.17
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.08 · Out $0.45
Cache hit price
#104 of 324
$0.040
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#373 of 476
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores 83 and Google: Gemma 3 27B scores 47 — a 36-point lead for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ahead on 2 and Google: Gemma 3 27B ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $1.12 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and $0.17 for Google: Gemma 3 27B — Google: Gemma 3 27B is about 6.5× cheaper.

Throughput is 86 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 19 for Google: Gemma 3 27B, with time to first token at 4.7s and 1.0s. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 131k.

Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is proprietary; Google: Gemma 3 27B is open weights under Open weights (restricted use). 7 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 83 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 47 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.17
Output tok/s 86 19
Context window 1.05M 131k
Providers 2 5
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

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

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 83 47
Coding Index 72
Mathematics Index 49
Reasoning Index 40
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview · marker = Google: Gemma 3 27B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond89 / 48
Mock AIME 2024–2596 / 22

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview / Google: Gemma 3 27B. Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Text Arena 1,358
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,365
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Input $/1M $0.50 $0.08
Output $/1M $3.00 $0.45
Blended $/1M $1.12 $0.17
Cache read $/1M $0.050 $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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Context window 1.05M 131k
Max output tokens 66k 118k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle: Gemma 3 27B
Output tokens/s 86 19
Time to first token 4.7s 1.0s
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Providers

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

7 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash Preview tok/s Google: Gemma 3 27B blendedGoogle: Gemma 3 27B tok/s
Google AI Studio $0.56 72
Google · first party $0.56 66
Phala $0.23 51
DeepInfra $0.10 16
Parasail $0.17 11
Nebius $0.15 7
Novita $0.14 7

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

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