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Gemma 3 27B IT

Google · 27B · open weights

Strongest in Factual grounding (#35 of 104), weakest in Agents (#280 of 298). Above par in 6 of 16 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 4.8 and Grok 4.7 and ahead of Mercury 2 and Amazon Nova Micro.

§ 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.

Core abilities45.8#137/199
General intelligence43.9#127/178
Safety51.6#141/329
Factual grounding56.4#35/104
Jailbreak resistance56.9#82/268
Toxicity avoidance55.2#95/268
Fairness46.7#153/292
Harm refusal49.8#157/292
Secure code48.6#169/270
Coding41.7#159/179
Agentic coding40.9#156/173
Human preference53.3#162/354
Human preference53.3#162/354
Agents40.6#280/298
Tool use43.9#49/81
Knowledge work30#205/208

§ 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 3 27B IT, left for the other.

Gemma 3 4B ITwon 11 · lost 2
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 9 · lost 2
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 8 · lost 2
QwQ 32Bwon 8 · lost 2
Command Awon 12 · lost 3
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 10 · lost 3
Gemma 4 31Bwon 10 · lost 4
Claude 3 Haikuwon 7 · lost 4
Amazon Nova Prowon 7 · lost 4
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 8 · lost 5
Grok 4.3won 8 · lost 5
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 6 · lost 4
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 7 · lost 5
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 7 · lost 5
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 6 · lost 5
Grok Build 0.1won 6 · lost 5
Amazon Nova Microwon 6 · lost 5
Mercury 2won 6 · lost 5
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 5 · lost 5
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 5 · lost 5
GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 5
GPT-4o miniwon 7 · lost 7
GPT-4.1 nanowon 7 · lost 8
Gemma 3 12B ITwon 5 · lost 6
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 5 · lost 6
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 8
GPT OSS 20Bwon 5 · lost 7
Qwen3 8Bwon 4 · lost 6
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 4 · lost 6
GPT-4won 4 · lost 6
Mistral Large 3won 4 · lost 6
DeepSeek V3won 6 · lost 9
Kimi K2.5won 6 · lost 9
Grok 3won 5 · lost 8
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 8
GLM-4.6won 6 · lost 10
Phi 4won 4 · lost 7
DeepSeek V3.1won 4 · lost 7
Mistral Large 4won 5 · lost 9
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 5 · lost 9
Kimi K2.6won 5 · lost 9
GLM-5.2won 5 · lost 9
O3 Miniwon 4 · lost 8
GPT OSS 120Bwon 5 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 5 · lost 10
DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 5 · lost 10
GPT-4owon 4 · lost 9
GPT-5 nanowon 4 · lost 9
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 9
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 9
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 3 · lost 7
O1 Miniwon 3 · lost 7
Grok 4won 4 · lost 10
Claude Haiku 4.5won 4 · lost 10
MiniMax M3won 4 · lost 10
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 4 · lost 10
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 3 · lost 8
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 3 · lost 9
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 3 · lost 9
DeepSeek V3.2won 4 · lost 12
GPT-5.1won 3 · lost 10
GPT-6 Lunawon 3 · lost 11
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 3 · lost 11
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 3 · lost 11
MiniMax M2won 2 · lost 8
GPT-5.4 nanowon 2 · lost 8
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 2 · lost 8
GPT-5.4 miniwon 2 · lost 8
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.5won 2 · lost 8
Gemini 4 Argonwon 2 · lost 8
Kimi K2won 3 · lost 12
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 3 · lost 12
GPT-5.5won 3 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 12
Qwen3 32Bwon 2 · lost 9
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 2 · lost 9
Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 9
GLM-5.1won 2 · lost 10
Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 10
Inklingwon 2 · lost 12
Grok 4.6won 2 · lost 12
GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 12
Grok 4.5won 2 · lost 12
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 2 · lost 12
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 2 · lost 12
GPT-4.1 miniwon 2 · lost 13
O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 13
GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 13
GPT-5won 2 · lost 13
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 13
GPT-5.4won 2 · lost 13
Claude Opus 5.5won 2 · lost 13
GPT-5 miniwon 2 · lost 14
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 14
Hy3won 1 · lost 9
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 10
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 1 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 1 · lost 11
MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 12
Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 12
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 12
Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 12
Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 12
O3won 1 · lost 13
Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 14
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 14
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 0 · lost 10
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 0 · lost 10
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 10
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 13
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 14
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 14

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

7 publications, 12 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1365
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
GDPval-AA -401
Aider polyglot ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Aider polyglot 4.9%
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
BFCL v4 29.47%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Kagi LLM Benchmark 40.4%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 7%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 43.9%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 9.7%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 2.6%Enkrypt · Bias risk 83%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 36%
Vectara · Factual consistency 92.6%

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