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Gemma 3 27B

by Googleopen weights
Gemma family
Parameters
27B
Context window
128K tokens
Released
2025-03-12
Input price / 1M tok
Output price / 1M tok
Modality
multimodal, vision, tools

About Gemma 3 27B

Google's open-weight small model family. 27B is the flagship of the Gemma 3 release — competitive with Llama 3.3 70B on many benchmarks at ~1/3 the size. Native vision, 128K context, and permissive Gemma licence.

Strengths

  • Native vision at small size
  • 128K context
  • Runs on one H100
  • Permissive licence

Weaknesses

  • Not fully open-source (Gemma licence has terms)
  • Weaker at hardest tasks
  • No audio

Best for

On-device visionSelf-hosted RAGFine-tuning
Vendor page →HuggingFace →