How does Gemma 2 27B rank among AI models?
Gemma 2 27B is a superseded version and is not on the current board as of 22 September 2026. Its archive position, where one exists, is shown on the page; the newer version carries the current rank.
Google·google/gemma-2-27b-it
Gemma 2 27B is ModelCap archive rank #293 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Gemma 2 27B listed OpenRouter input price is $0.65 per 1M tokens and listed output price is $0.65 per 1M tokens, from OpenRouter listed prices as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Gemma 2 27B has a published context limit of 8K tokens in the ModelCap catalogue as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Gemma 2 27B has 1 published OpenRouter serving endpoint, from OpenRouter as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Gemma 2 27B weight access is gated access, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 02:49 UTC.
Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
20.1#293
Measured · 63% support · score interval 15.1–25.1
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Superseded by Gemma 3 27B. It no longer holds a current-board position; its all-versions archive rank is #293.
Input
$0.65
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.65
per 1M tokens
Context
8K
tokens
Providers
1
endpoint
Gateway spend
—
latest · Vercel share
Providers
Uptime measured over the last 30 minutesReported evaluation leads (2)
Not independent measurementStructured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.
Other versions (2)
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
Methodology20.1
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
All-versions archive
#293
- Public rank basis
- Measured (measured)
- Index support
- 62.8% · strong
- Index interval
- 15.1–25.1
- Rank posterior
- Not available
- Top 5 / Top 10 probability
- Not available / Not available
- Posterior as of
- Snapshot timestamp unavailable
- Evidence as of
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Identity binding
- Exact catalogue product · google/google/gemma-2-27b-it · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata google/gemma-2-27b-it@aaf20e6b9f4c0fcf043f6fb2a2068419086d77b0 (not the evaluation revision)
- Index observations used
- 2
- Qualified Index evidence point
- 20.1
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
- Observed capability
- 20.1
- Evidence status
- confirmed · 77% mass
- General preference
- 20.7
- Coding
- 15.7
- Agents & tools
- —
- Reasoning
- —
- Evidence breadth
- 92%
- Evidence coverage
- 63%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
- Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
- 2.3
- Liquidity (providers × uptime)
- 97.4
- Open reach (HF downloads)
- —
- Surface (context / tools / modalities)
- 5.0
- Freshness
- 4.7
- · OpenRouter popularity #282
- · 1 live provider
- · Catalogue: context 8192
- · First seen 2024-07-13
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
BES evidence selected · measured input only
- Arena Overall20.7
- Arena Coding15.7
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
Deployment readiness
Metadata index76.6
strong · 93% metadata coverage
- Artifact reproducibility
- 100.0
- Access & legal clarity
- 68.3
- Deployability
- 74.0
- Evaluation provenance
- 53.8
Missing: accessLegalClarity.resolvable-license-terms, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market activity
Venue coverage- Market Gravity
- 33.3
- OpenRouter weekly popularity
- #282 of 322
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
Arena preference
- Status
- Ranked
- Source
- LMArena
- Official rank
- #279 of 402
- Rating
- 1289.2
- 95% confidence interval
- 1286–1293
- Votes
- 76K
- Source published at
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Category
- overall
- Identity match confidence
- 99%
Market Gravity breakdown
- Usage55%
- 2.3
- Liquidity25%
- 97.4
- Open reach15%
- 50.0
- Freshness5%
- 4.7
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Specification
- Context window
- 8K tokens
- Max output
- 2K tokens
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Tokenizer
- Gemini
- Cached input tokens
- Not offered
- First seen on OpenRouter
- 13 Jul 2024
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-06-30
Capabilities
- Not supported: Reasoning
- Not supported: Tool use
- Supported: Structured output
- Supported: Response format
- Not supported: Moderated
Weights & access
Gated access. The weights are hosted behind an access request or acceptance step. Review the publisher's access requirements and license before use or redistribution.
- Access
- Gated access
- Licence
- gemma
- Pinned revision
- aaf20e6b9f4c
- Parameters
- 27.2B
- Architecture
- Gemma2ForCausalLM
- Model type
- gemma2
- Hugging Face downloads (30d)
- 28K
- Downloads (all time)
- 5.3M
- Likes
- 574
- Repository
- google/gemma-2-27b-it
- Repository updated
- 27 Aug 2024, 19:41 UTC
- Base lineage
- google/gemma-2-27b
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How much does Gemma 2 27B cost per 1M tokens?
Gemma 2 27B is listed at $0.65 per 1M input tokens and $0.65 per 1M output tokens as of 22 September 2026. Prices come from the OpenRouter catalogue and re-observe on every refresh. For 1,000 requests using 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, the listed rates imply $1.63 total (2M input + 0.5M output). This excludes caching, batch discounts, prompt-length tiers, tool charges and retries; verify the chosen endpoint's rate and limits before budgeting.
What is the context window of Gemma 2 27B?
Gemma 2 27B has a published context window of 8K tokens (8,192) and a maximum output of 2K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; the providers table lists each endpoint's own limit.
Is Gemma 2 27B open-weight?
Gated access (gemma). The weights are hosted behind an access request or acceptance step. Review the publisher's access requirements and license before use or redistribution. The repository is google/gemma-2-27b-it on Hugging Face.
Which API providers serve Gemma 2 27B?
One provider serves Gemma 2 27B through OpenRouter as of 22 September 2026: NextBit. Each provider's price, context limit, quantization and measured uptime are in the providers table above.
Which benchmarks has Gemma 2 27B been evaluated on?
Gemma 2 27B has published results on 1 public board tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1305 (#295 of 397). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.
When was Gemma 2 27B released?
Gemma 2 27B first appeared in the catalogue on 13 Jul 2024, with a published knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-30. It has since been superseded by Gemma 3 27B. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.