The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Google: Gemma 3 27B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ·Google vs Moonshot AI

Google: Gemma 3 27B vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemma 3 27B profile MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 profile All comparisons
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)
MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — Moonshot AI
Quality
#7 of 62
93based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#122 of 317
58.8
Output tokens per second
Price
#225 of 370
$1.16
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.65 · Out $2.72
Cache hit price
#119 of 238
$0.11
per 1M tokens (−83%)
Context
#199 of 375
262k
tokens (~400 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemma 3 27B scores 46 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 scores 93 — a 47-point lead for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemma 3 27B ahead on 0 and MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.17 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemma 3 27B and $1.16 for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 — Google: Gemma 3 27B is about 6.8× cheaper.

Throughput is 21 tokens per second for Google: Gemma 3 27B and 59 for MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6, with time to first token at 1.1s and 1.4s. Google: Gemma 3 27B accepts 262k tokens of context against 262k.

Google: Gemma 3 27B is open weights under Open weights (restricted use); MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 23 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 4 serve both.

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

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 46 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 93 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.17 $1.16
Output tok/s 21 59
Context window 262k 262k
Providers 5 22
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Known Good Index 46 93
Mathematics Index 47 96
Reasoning Index 40
Agentic Index 87
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemma 3 27B · marker = MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond49 / 91
Mock AIME 2024–2520 / 96

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemma 3 27B / MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6. Google: Gemma 3 27B leads on 0 of 2, MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 on 2.

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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Text Arena 1,455
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,461
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Input $/1M $0.08 $0.65
Output $/1M $0.45 $2.72
Blended $/1M $0.17 $1.16
Cache read $/1M $0.040 $0.109
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Context window 262k 262k
Max output tokens 131k 262k
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Output tokens/s 21 59
Time to first token 1.1s 1.4s
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Providers

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

23 hosts · 4 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemma 3 27B blendedGoogle: Gemma 3 27B tok/s MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 blendedMoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6 tok/s
Parasail $0.17 37 $1.44 128
Phala $0.23 20 $1.97 42
DeepInfra $0.10 18 $1.44 38
Novita $0.14 17 $1.45 31
Nebius $0.15 15
Together $2.02 138
CoreWeave $1.34 135
BaseTen $1.71 127
Fireworks $1.71 86
Decart $1.34 76
ModelRun $1.38 76
Cloudflare $1.71 56
Inceptron $1.30 52
DigitalOcean $1.37 51
Crusoe $1.40 50
Baidu · first party $1.16 42
Chutes $1.37 42
Venice $1.44 36
AtlasCloud $1.71 34
SiliconFlow $1.43 34
StreamLake $1.54 31
Moonshot AI · first party $1.71 23
Sail Research $1.75 6

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →