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Gemma 2 27B

AI model Released

Context window
8,192 tokens
Maximum output
2,048 tokens
Open weights
Yes

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

Gemma 2 27B 1231.4 Gemma 2 27B IT · 95% interval 1228.0–1234.7 · 75,754 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,220.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.09 – 1,229.70

6872 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,210.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.29 – 1,216.99

12088 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,240.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,233.49 – 1,247.17

11429 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,241.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,237.60 – 1,246.19

41283 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,128.53 rating

Confidence interval: 1,123.34 – 1,133.72

47955 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,171.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,160.80 – 1,181.70

4025 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,247.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,224.42 – 1,271.08

793 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,208.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,194.31 – 1,223.54

2037 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,198.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.04 – 1,203.41

20494 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,205.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,199.47 – 1,212.04

12606 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,207.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,199.97 – 1,215.18

8733 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,212.41 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.98 – 1,218.84

12280 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,241.21 rating

Confidence interval: 1,230.79 – 1,251.64

4458 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,228.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,221.50 – 1,234.63

12863 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,221.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.20 – 1,228.65

8869 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,197.57 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.25 – 1,208.89

3862 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,227.80 rating

Confidence interval: 1,222.36 – 1,233.24

19950 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,248.66 rating

Confidence interval: 1,243.15 – 1,254.16

20390 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,205.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,201.11 – 1,210.60

29545 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,175.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.61 – 1,191.47

1808 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,173.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,154.49 – 1,193.06

1440 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,230.25 rating

Confidence interval: 1,223.36 – 1,237.14

9918 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,211.97 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.10 – 1,218.84

10170 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,223.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,217.17 – 1,230.23

13588 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,216.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.42 – 1,221.31

34471 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,231.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.98 – 1,234.73

75754 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,277.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.06 – 1,350.28

58 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,233.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.48 – 1,240.92

9678 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,228.26 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.49 – 1,251.03

845 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
Gemma 2 27B IT
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,220.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.13 – 1,229.75

6872 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,210.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.39 – 1,217.09

12088 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,240.49 rating

Confidence interval: 1,233.65 – 1,247.33

11429 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,241.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,237.55 – 1,246.14

41283 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,128.54 rating

Confidence interval: 1,123.35 – 1,133.73

47955 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,171.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,160.83 – 1,181.75

4025 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,247.44 rating

Confidence interval: 1,224.10 – 1,270.78

793 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,208.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,194.37 – 1,223.48

2037 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,198.22 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.04 – 1,203.40

20494 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,205.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,199.35 – 1,211.93

12606 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,207.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,200.01 – 1,215.22

8733 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,212.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,206.04 – 1,218.90

12280 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,240.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,230.53 – 1,251.38

4458 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,228.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,221.48 – 1,234.61

12863 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,221.42 rating

Confidence interval: 1,214.20 – 1,228.64

8869 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,197.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.31 – 1,208.95

3862 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,227.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,222.45 – 1,233.32

19950 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,248.72 rating

Confidence interval: 1,243.21 – 1,254.23

20390 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,205.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,201.12 – 1,210.61

29545 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,175.38 rating

Confidence interval: 1,159.53 – 1,191.22

1808 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,173.81 rating

Confidence interval: 1,154.56 – 1,193.07

1440 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,230.29 rating

Confidence interval: 1,223.40 – 1,237.19

9918 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,211.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.07 – 1,218.80

10170 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,223.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,217.16 – 1,230.23

13588 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,216.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,212.51 – 1,221.40

34471 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,231.34 rating

Confidence interval: 1,227.97 – 1,234.71

75754 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,277.27 rating

Confidence interval: 1,204.05 – 1,350.49

58 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,233.85 rating

Confidence interval: 1,226.63 – 1,241.07

9678 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

Gemma 2 27B

1,228.18 rating

Confidence interval: 1,205.39 – 1,250.98

845 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
gemma-2-27b-it
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

Gemma 2 27B

50.7 GiB checkpoint tensor payload · 27.23 B stored tensor elements · BF16

Stored tensors can include buffers and repeated shared weights. A verified unique parameter count is unavailable. Checkpoint size is not the memory required to run the model.

API cost

USD / month

Standard text-token estimate. Excludes taxes, caching, batch discounts, reasoning and multimodal surcharges. Provider limits and regional availability may differ.

Gemma 2 27B

Capabilities

Context window
8,192 tokens
Maximum output
2,048 tokens
Reasoning
No
Tool calling
No
Open weights
Yes
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-30
Checkpoint tensor payload
50.71 GiB

Input modalities

  • text

Output modalities

  • text