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Gemma 2 27B It

Google · 27B · open weights

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#3 of 272), weakest in Human preference (#230 of 342). Above par in 6 of 10 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 5.5 and Inkling and ahead of Mistral Large and Gemini 3.6 Flash.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Safety56.6#30/337
Toxicity avoidance59#3/272
Secure code64.7#14/274
Fairness56.2#58/300
Jailbreak resistance57.9#69/272
Harm refusal53.2#104/300
Professional46.5#118/168
Legal42.2#124/151
Human preference46.3#230/342
Human preference46.3#230/342

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Gemma 2 27B It, left for the other.

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
PowerMoE 3Bwon 6 · lost 0
Phi 2won 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0
LFM2 350Mwon 6 · lost 0
Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
GLM-4 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Mini 1.7won 6 · lost 0
Magistral Smallwon 6 · lost 0
Aya 23 8Bwon 6 · lost 0
Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0
SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 6 · lost 0
Grok Build 0.1won 6 · lost 0
H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 6 · lost 0
Command R7Bwon 6 · lost 0
LFM2 700Mwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Large 1.7won 6 · lost 0
NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen3 8Bwon 6 · lost 0
Open Mixtral 8x7bwon 6 · lost 0
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
LFM2 1.2Bwon 6 · lost 0
Aya 23 35Bwon 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek V3p1won 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 6 · lost 0
Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Instructwon 6 · lost 0
SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek Reasonerwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 12Bwon 6 · lost 0
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 6 · lost 0
Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Fuguwon 6 · lost 0
Open Mixtral 8x22bwon 6 · lost 0
Apertus 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 6 · lost 0
GLM-5 Turbowon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 6 · lost 0
SeaLLM 7B V2won 6 · lost 0
Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Command Rwon 7 · lost 0
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 8 · lost 0
Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Zephyr 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0
Gemma 7B Itwon 8 · lost 0
Starling Lm 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 8 · lost 0
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 8 · lost 0
DBRX Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Gemma 2 2B Itwon 8 · lost 0
GPT-3.5 Turbowon 8 · lost 0
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 10 · lost 0
Command R Pluswon 9 · lost 1
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 7 · lost 1
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 7 · lost 1
Gemma 2B Itwon 7 · lost 1
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Nova Microwon 7 · lost 1
Nova Litewon 7 · lost 1
PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1
SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1
OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1
Open Codestral Mambawon 5 · lost 1
Sarvam 1won 5 · lost 1
WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 5 · lost 1
Sarvam 30Bwon 5 · lost 1
GPT-5.6 Astrawon 5 · lost 1
Apertus 70B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
Granite 4.0 H Microwon 5 · lost 1
Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 5 · lost 1
K2 Chatwon 5 · lost 1
EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 5 · lost 1
Fugu Ultra V2won 5 · lost 1
Nova Premierwon 5 · lost 1
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 5 · lost 1
Sarvam 105Bwon 5 · lost 1
Cogito 671B V2 P1won 5 · lost 1
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 8 · lost 2
Mistral Smallwon 7 · lost 2
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 6 · lost 2
C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 6 · lost 2
Claude 3 Haikuwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 6 · lost 2
GPT-4won 6 · lost 2
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 3 4B Itwon 6 · lost 2
Magistral Mediumwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen Maxwon 6 · lost 2
QwQ 32Bwon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 3 12B Itwon 6 · lost 2
Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 3 27B Itwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 6 · lost 2
Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 5 · lost 2
Gemma 2 9B Itwon 7 · lost 3
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 7 · lost 3
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 7 · lost 3
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 7 · lost 3
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 7 · lost 3
DeepSeek R1won 7 · lost 3
Komodo 7B Basewon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 4 · lost 2
Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Krutrim 2 Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 4 · lost 2
Titan Text Express V1won 4 · lost 2
Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 4 · lost 2
GPT-4o Miniwon 6 · lost 3
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 5 · lost 3
Phi 4won 5 · lost 3
Nova Prowon 5 · lost 3
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 5 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 5 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 5 · lost 3
GPT OSS 20Bwon 6 · lost 4
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 6 · lost 4
Command Awon 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3won 6 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 6 · lost 4
Grok 3won 6 · lost 4
Grok 4won 6 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.2won 6 · lost 4
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
MiniMax M3won 6 · lost 4
Grok 4.3won 6 · lost 4
Kimi K2.5won 6 · lost 4
Gemma 4 31Bwon 6 · lost 4
Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
GPT-6 Solwon 6 · lost 4
Kimi K2.6won 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 6 · lost 4
GLM-5.1won 6 · lost 4
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 6 · lost 4
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 6 · lost 4
GLM-5.2won 6 · lost 4
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 6 · lost 4
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 6 · lost 4
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Mistral Largewon 5 · lost 4
Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 3 · lost 3
Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 4 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 5 · lost 5
GPT-4.1won 5 · lost 5
Kimi K2won 5 · lost 5
GPT-6 Lunawon 5 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 5
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 5 · lost 5
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 5 · lost 5
GPT-5.4won 5 · lost 5
GPT-5.6 Solwon 5 · lost 5
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 5 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 3 · lost 4
GPT-4owon 4 · lost 6
GPT OSS 120Bwon 4 · lost 6
O3 Miniwon 4 · lost 6
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 4 · lost 6
O4 Miniwon 4 · lost 6
Claude Haiku 4.5won 4 · lost 6
Grok 4.5won 4 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 4 · lost 6
GPT-5.5won 4 · lost 6
Claude Opus 4.7won 4 · lost 6
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 3 · lost 5
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 5
O1 Miniwon 3 · lost 6
GPT-4 Turbowon 3 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 3 · lost 7
GPT-5 Nanowon 3 · lost 7
O1won 3 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4won 3 · lost 7
O3won 3 · lost 7
Grok 4.6won 3 · lost 7
GPT-5.1won 3 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 3 · lost 7
Claude Opus 5won 3 · lost 7
Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 5
Claude 3 Opuswon 2 · lost 6
MiniMax M2won 2 · lost 6
Hy3won 2 · lost 6
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 4won 2 · lost 8
MiniMax M2.7won 2 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 5won 2 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.8won 2 · lost 8
Muse Spark 1.1won 2 · lost 8
GPT-5 Miniwon 1 · lost 9
GPT-5won 1 · lost 9
GPT-5.2won 1 · lost 9
Grok 4.7won 1 · lost 9
Inklingwon 1 · lost 9
Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 9

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

3 publications, 8 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1289
Vals.ai ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Vals · LegalBench 67.98%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 6.1%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 26.1%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 10.3%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 0%Enkrypt · Bias risk 68.2%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 3.6%

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