Gemma 3 27B review, price and benchmarks (2026)

legacy free open-weights local

Provider

Statuslegacy

AA Intelligence Index7.4 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessOpen weights

In one line

The 2025 open generation, superseded by Gemma 4.

Coding20

Reasoning16

Writing24

Agents & tools12

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).