The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
Google: Gemma 3 27B vs Z.ai: GLM 5.1 ·Google vs Z.ai

Google: Gemma 3 27B vs Z.ai: GLM 5.1 — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemma 3 27B profile Z.ai: GLM 5.1 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)
Z.ai: GLM 5.1 — Z.ai
Quality
#12 of 62
88based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#138 of 317
53.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#235 of 370
$1.48
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.97 · Out $3.04
Cache hit price
#162 of 238
$0.18
per 1M tokens (−81%)
Context
#222 of 375
205k
tokens (~300 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemma 3 27B scores 46 and Z.ai: GLM 5.1 scores 88 — a 42-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 5.1. They share 2 published evaluations, with Google: Gemma 3 27B ahead on 0 and Z.ai: GLM 5.1 ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.17 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemma 3 27B and $1.48 for Z.ai: GLM 5.1 — Google: Gemma 3 27B is about 8.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 21 tokens per second for Google: Gemma 3 27B and 53 for Z.ai: GLM 5.1, with time to first token at 1.1s and 1.8s. Google: Gemma 3 27B accepts 262k tokens of context against 205k.

Google: Gemma 3 27B is open weights under Open weights (restricted use); Z.ai: GLM 5.1 is proprietary. 19 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 5 serve both.

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

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemma 3 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Known Good Index 46 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 88 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.17 $1.48
Output tok/s 21 53
Context window 262k 205k
Providers 5 19
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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 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Known Good Index 46 88
Mathematics Index 47 92
Reasoning Index 40
Agentic Index 82
Openness Index 60 5
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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 = Z.ai: GLM 5.1 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond49 / 85
Mock AIME 2024–2520 / 92

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemma 3 27B / Z.ai: GLM 5.1. Google: Gemma 3 27B leads on 0 of 2, Z.ai: GLM 5.1 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 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Text Arena 1,465
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469
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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 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Input $/1M $0.08 $0.97
Output $/1M $0.45 $3.04
Blended $/1M $0.17 $1.48
Cache read $/1M $0.040 $0.179
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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 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Context window 262k 205k
Max output tokens 131k 128k
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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 27BZ.ai: GLM 5.1
Output tokens/s 21 53
Time to first token 1.1s 1.8s
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Providers

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

19 hosts · 5 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemma 3 27B blendedGoogle: Gemma 3 27B tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.1 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.1 tok/s
Parasail $0.17 37 $2.15 66
Phala $0.23 20 $1.96 42
DeepInfra $0.10 18 $1.66 62
Novita $0.14 17 $2.13 51
Nebius $0.15 15 $2.15 29
CoreWeave $2.15 146
Wafer $1.55 87
GMICloud $1.50 66
Venice $2.37 64
Friendli $2.15 59
SiliconFlow $1.83 57
Crusoe $2.00 54
StreamLake $1.48 43
Baidu · first party $1.46 42
Z.AI · first party $2.15 42
Chutes $1.50 41
AtlasCloud $1.94 27
DigitalOcean $1.81 20
Fireworks $2.15

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

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