Benchmark Almanac

Gemma 3 27B

Gemma 3 27B ranks first on 2 of the 105 benchmarks it has scores on.

Google DeepMind Released 11 Mar 2025 Family Gemma 3 The lab's model card
112
Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
6
In the top three
Google DeepMind Mar 2025

Gemma 3 27B

Open weights Open model

129.9 #161 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • SWE-Bench Pro 11.4% #21 /24
  • CritPt 0% #126 /160
  • SimpleQA Verified 10.7% #46 /56

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MadinahQA 69.4% #1 of 39 Official leaderboard
ArabicMMLU 70.8% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard v2 71.4% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
AlGhafa 77.9% #4 of 39 Official leaderboard
ArbMMLU-HT 66.9% #4 of 39 Official leaderboard
Flores 48.8 #1 of 8 Model card
BIG-Bench Hard 87.6% #11 of 71 Model card
IFEval 90.4% #21 of 126 Model card
IndicGenBench 63.4 #1 of 4 Model card
XQuAD 76.8 #1 of 4 Model card
TriviaQA 85.5% #10 of 39 Model card
ARC-Easy 89% #7 of 23 Model card
AGIEval 66.2% #11 of 35 Model card
SIQA 54.9% #7 of 22 Model card
MMBench-CN v1.1 78.2% #60 of 178 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2025 dataset) 7.40% #36 of 104 Official leaderboard
Natural Questions 36.1% #7 of 20 Model card
PIQA 83.3% #12 of 33 Model card
BoolQ 82.4% #12 of 28 Model card
HellaSwag 85.6% #21 of 47 Model card
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 7.99 #20 of 44 Epoch AI
WinoGrande 78.8% #20 of 42 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,365 #161 of 333 Official leaderboard
ALRAGE 73.3% #19 of 39 Official leaderboard
ARC-Challenge 70.6% #27 of 45 Model card
ECLeKTic 24.4% #6 of 10 Model card
MMLU 78.6% #78 of 127 Model card
EQ-Bench 3 1,105 #51 of 78 Official leaderboard
MRCR (Michelangelo, original) 59.3% #6 of 9 Model card
MGSM 74.3% #35 of 52 Model card
SEA-HELM 64.5 #42 of 62 Official leaderboard
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 3.00% #105 of 148 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 58.7 #86 of 120 Official leaderboard
BIG-Bench Extra Hard 19.3% #8 of 11 Model card
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 289.0 #56 of 76 Official leaderboard
DROP 77.2% #30 of 40 Model card
MMLU-Pro 67.5% #118 of 151 Model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 41.9 #95 of 119 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 10.7% #46 of 56 Official leaderboard
Slop Score 69.5 #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 15% #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA 10% #49 of 59 Model card
Global MMLU Lite 76.3% #36 of 43 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding 74.9% #13 of 15 Model card
FACTS Multimodal 24.6% #34 of 39 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric 6.27% #40 of 45 Official leaderboard
RULER 66% #35 of 38 Model card
Phare 57.4% #59 of 62 Official leaderboard
Fiction.LiveBench 33.3% #55 of 57 Epoch AI
FACTS Search 41.4% #30 of 31 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 24.6% #39 of 40 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 3.64% #105 of 107 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 3.00% #120 of 122 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 40.3% #58 of 58 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GSM8K 95.9% #8 of 87 Model card
MATH 89% #11 of 93 Model card
MATH Level 5 74% #31 of 94 Epoch AI
HiddenMath 60.3% #5 of 11 Model card
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 22.5% #142 of 202 Epoch AI
GPQA Diamond 47.7% #154 of 219 Epoch AI
CritPt 0% #126 of 160 Epoch AI
PolyMath 20.3% #33 of 38 Official leaderboard
DTBench 20.9% #155 of 178 Official leaderboard
Misguided Attention 23.4% #43 of 45 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
HumanEval 87.8% #29 of 95 Model card
BigO(Bench) 37.6% #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
Natural2Code 84.5% #3 of 9 Model card
BigCodeBench-Hard 26% #42 of 96 Official leaderboard
MBPP 74.4% #31 of 66 Model card
Bird-SQL 54.4% #8 of 13 Model card
LiveCodeBench 29.7% #62 of 73 Model card
SWE-Bench Pro 11.4% #21 of 24 Official leaderboard
Aider Polyglot 4.90% #53 of 54 Epoch AI

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) 59.1% #25 of 67 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 25 #84 of 183 Official leaderboard
BFCL V4 29.5% #40 of 65 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 175.3 #95 of 133 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
A-Bench 76.3% #22 of 116 Official leaderboard
MMBench 82.3% #37 of 155 Official leaderboard
MMBench-EN v1.1 79.6% #56 of 178 Official leaderboard
MMMU 64.9% #45 of 136 Official leaderboard
COCO Captions 116.0 #1 of 3 Model card
OK-VQA 60.2% #1 of 3 Model card
MMStar 59.6% #61 of 173 Official leaderboard
CCBench (MMBench Chinese Culture) 53.3% #57 of 152 Official leaderboard
ReMI 44.8% #2 of 4 Model card
TallyQA 54.3% #2 of 4 Model card
MATH-Vision (MathVision) 46% #56 of 105 Official leaderboard
Perception Test MCVQA 58.1% #4 of 6 Model card
SpatialSense VQA 59.4% #2 of 3 Model card
Vision Arena 1,160 #96 of 136 Official leaderboard
Math-VR 16.1% #19 of 26 Official leaderboard
MathVista 67.6% #48 of 64 Model card
ActivityNet-QA 52.8% #6 of 8 Model card
VQAv2 72.9% #6 of 8 Model card
InfographicVQA 70.6% #17 of 22 Model card
AI2D 84.5% #35 of 44 Model card
GeoBench 52% #41 of 48 Official leaderboard
TextVQA 68.6% #15 of 17 Model card
CountBench 68% #18 of 20 Model card
BLINK 39.6% #26 of 28 Model card
RealWorldQA 53.9% #28 of 30 Model card
DocVQA 86.6% #31 of 33 Model card
ChartQA 78% #35 of 37 Model card

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AraTrust 89.1% #3 of 39 Official leaderboard
Spiral-Bench v1.2 25.2 #18 of 21 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
OpenVLM Leaderboard 67.5 #47 of 173 Official leaderboard
Political Science LLM Benchmark 66% #15 of 29 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 50% #26 of 48 Epoch AI
ACCoRD 40.5 #130 of 150 Official leaderboard
LMCA 12.3% #122 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 19.6 #134 of 149 Official leaderboard

Google DeepMind's models over time

Google DeepMind's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemma 3 12B 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Argon Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 5 of them aren't in the launch post.