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Gemma 2 27B IT

Google · 27B · open weights

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#1 of 268), weakest in Human preference (#239 of 354). 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 Llama 3.1 405B Instruct and Llama 3.2 Vision (90B).

§ 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#30/329
Toxicity avoidance59#1/268
Secure code64.5#15/270
Fairness56.2#57/292
Jailbreak resistance58#67/268
Harm refusal53.2#103/292
Professional46.7#140/194
Legal42.2#145/173
Human preference46.1#239/354
Human preference46.1#239/354

§ 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
Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 6 · lost 0
SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
PowerMoE 3Bwon 6 · lost 0
Phi 2won 6 · lost 0
H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0
LFM2 350Mwon 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
GLM-4 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 6 · lost 0
CodeLlama 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Magistral Smallwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Mini 1.7won 6 · lost 0
Aya 23 8Bwon 6 · lost 0
Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0
Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 6 · lost 0
Grok Build 0.1won 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 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
Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 6 · lost 0
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Aya 23 35Bwon 6 · lost 0
LFM2 1.2Bwon 6 · lost 0
Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0
SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
DeepSeek Reasonerwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 6 · lost 0
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 6 · lost 0
Gemma 4 12Bwon 6 · lost 0
Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Fuguwon 6 · lost 0
Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 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
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 6 · lost 0
GLM-5 Turbowon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Phi 3 Small 128k 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
Magistral Small 1.2won 8 · lost 0
OLMo 7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
SmolLM2 1.7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Zephyr 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0
Gemma 7B ITwon 8 · lost 0
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2won 8 · lost 0
Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPOwon 8 · lost 0
Phi-3 Small 8K Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Starling LM 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0
Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 8 · lost 0
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 8 · lost 0
DBRX Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Phi-3 Medium 4K 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
Mistral Small 3 24B Instructwon 8 · lost 0
Mixtral 8x22B Instructwon 9 · lost 0
Mixtral 8x7B Instructwon 10 · lost 0
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 10 · lost 0
Command R+won 9 · lost 1
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 7 · lost 1
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 7 · lost 1
Gemma 2B ITwon 7 · lost 1
Phi-3 Mini 128K Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
Amazon Nova Microwon 7 · lost 1
Amazon Nova Litewon 7 · lost 1
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 7 · lost 1
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 6 · 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
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 5 · lost 1
EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 5 · lost 1
Nova Premierwon 5 · lost 1
Fugu Ultra V2won 5 · lost 1
Sarvam 105Bwon 5 · lost 1
Cogito 671B V2 P1won 5 · lost 1
Llama 2 7B Chatwon 8 · lost 2
Llama 2 13B Chatwon 8 · lost 2
Llama 2 70B Chatwon 8 · lost 2
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 8 · lost 2
Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 7 · lost 2
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 6 · 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
Aya Expanse 8Bwon 6 · lost 2
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Claude 3 Haikuwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Aya Expanse 32Bwon 6 · lost 2
GPT-4won 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
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 6 · lost 2
Gemma 3 27B ITwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 6 · lost 2
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructwon 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 V3.1won 7 · lost 3
DeepSeek R1won 7 · lost 3
Gemma 4 31Bwon 7 · lost 3
Komodo 7B Basewon 4 · lost 2
Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 4 · lost 2
EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 4 · lost 2
Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 4 · lost 2
Krutrim 2 Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Titan Text Express V1won 4 · lost 2
Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 4 · lost 2
Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
GPT-4o miniwon 6 · lost 3
Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B)won 5 · lost 3
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 5 · lost 3
Phi 4won 5 · lost 3
Amazon Nova Prowon 5 · lost 3
Mercury 2won 5 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 5 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 5 · lost 3
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 4
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
Mistral Large 4won 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3.2won 6 · lost 4
GLM-4.6won 6 · lost 4
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 6 · lost 4
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 4
MiniMax M3won 6 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Grok 4.3won 6 · lost 4
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Kimi K2.5won 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
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 6 · lost 4
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 4
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 6 · lost 4
Llama 3.2 Vision (90B)won 4 · lost 3
Llama 3.1 405B Instructwon 5 · lost 4
Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 3 · lost 3
Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 5 · lost 5
GPT-4.1 miniwon 5 · lost 5
GPT-4.1won 5 · lost 5
Kimi K2won 5 · lost 5
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 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
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 4 · lost 6
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
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instructwon 3 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 3 · lost 5
Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 5
O1 Miniwon 3 · lost 6
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 3 · lost 7
GPT-4 Turbowon 3 · lost 7
GPT-5 nanowon 3 · lost 7
O1won 3 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4won 3 · lost 7
O3won 3 · lost 7
GPT-5.1won 3 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 3 · lost 7
Claude Opus 5won 3 · lost 7
Grok 3 Miniwon 2 · lost 5
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
Grok 4.6won 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 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1290
Vals.ai ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Vals · LegalBench 67.98%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10
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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