The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Google: Gemma 3 27B ·Anthropic vs Google

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Google: Gemma 3 27B — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 profile Google: Gemma 3 27B profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#11 of 62
88based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#216 of 317
36.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#344 of 370
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#217 of 238
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#104 of 375
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Google: Gemma 3 27B — Google
Quality
#46 of 62
46based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#278 of 317
20.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#66 of 370
$0.17
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.08 · Out $0.45
Cache hit price
#74 of 238
$0.040
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#198 of 375
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 88 and Google: Gemma 3 27B scores 46 — a 42-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. They share 2 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ahead on 2 and Google: Gemma 3 27B ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and $0.17 for Google: Gemma 3 27B — Google: Gemma 3 27B is about 58.0× cheaper.

Throughput is 36 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and 21 for Google: Gemma 3 27B, with time to first token at 2.4s and 1.1s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 262k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary; Google: Gemma 3 27B is open weights under Open weights (restricted use). 9 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 88 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 46 based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.17
Output tok/s 36 21
Context window 1.00M 262k
Providers 4 5
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Known Good Index 88 46
Coding Index 89
Mathematics Index 93 47
Reasoning Index 84 40
Agentic Index 89
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 · marker = Google: Gemma 3 27B · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 49
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 20

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 / Google: Gemma 3 27B. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 2 of 2, Google: Gemma 3 27B on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Text Arena 1,497
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,497
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.08
Output $/1M $25.00 $0.45
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.17
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.040
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Context window 1.00M 262k
Max output tokens 128k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Google: Gemma 3 27B
Output tokens/s 36 21
Time to first token 2.4s 1.1s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

9 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 tok/s Google: Gemma 3 27B blendedGoogle: Gemma 3 27B tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 34
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 32
Anthropic · first party $10.00 31
Azure · first party $10.00 28
Parasail $0.17 37
Phala $0.23 20
DeepInfra $0.10 18
Novita $0.14 17
Nebius $0.15 15

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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