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Gemma 3 27B vs Kimi K2.6

Kimi K2.6 leads Gemma 3 27B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 27.0 to 4.9, and Gemma 3 27B costs 13.3x less per output token ($0.30 vs $4.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 51 benchmarks have a result for both.

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Gemma 3 27BGoogle
Coding
No data
Overall
31.4
Output $/M
$0.30
0
Kimi K2.6Moonshot AI
Coding
52.1
Overall
60.5
Output $/M
$4.00
51
vs boards won of 51 shared

Gemma 3 27B or Kimi K2.6: which to pick

Only Kimi K2.6 has a coding score, 52.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 3 27B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Gemma 3 27B for output tokens 13.3x cheaper ($0.30 vs $4.00 per million).

Model AGemma 3 27BGoogleNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BKimi K2.6Moonshot AI52.1/1003 independent benchmarks$0.35 per solved task
Shared results
51
Gemma 3 27B only
15
Kimi K2.6 only
58
Like-for-like categories
7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemma 3 27B not benchmarked, Kimi K2.6 52.1 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 52.9 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
τ²-Bench Telecom: Gemma 3 27B 10.5% against Kimi K2.6 95.9%, 85.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemma 3 27B $0.30 against Kimi K2.6 $4.00 per million output tokens, 13.3x apart.
Context window
Gemma 3 27B takes 131K tokens, Kimi K2.6 262K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemma 3 27BBarsKimi K2.6Ties
Coding05
Intelligence02
Agentic work02
Reasoning08
Math03
Knowledge04
General027
All shared boards051
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index05
Coding benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
Aider polyglot4.9%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1509Only Kimi K2.6 measured
AA Coding Index10.161.8Kimi K2.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured86.8%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured76.2%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured37.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured27.8%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured53.6%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)13.7%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
SciCode23.3%51.5%Kimi K2.6
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)3.8%43.9%Kimi K2.6
WeirdMLNot measured55.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
ALE-BenchNot measured1092.7Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: coding13221489Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: software and IT13541484Kimi K2.6
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1505Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1485Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1521Only Kimi K2.6 measured
SciCode0.0%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
AA Intelligence Index4.927.0Kimi K2.6
Epoch Capabilities Index130.0150.9Kimi K2.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
AA Agentic Index0.120.5Kimi K2.6
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1268Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack appsNot measured1155Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile appsNot measured1156Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android appsNot measured1161Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot gamesNot measured1120Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building gamesNot measured1141Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: HTML slidesNot measured1135Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slidesNot measured1103Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheetsNot measured1276Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured44.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured12.4%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured15.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured57.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
τ²-Bench Telecom10.5%95.9%Kimi K2.6
OSWorld 2.0Not measured4.6%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2Not measured$6,205Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)29.5%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
GPQA DiamondNot measured89.1%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured86.3%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)42.8%91.1%Kimi K2.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)4.4%37.5%Kimi K2.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)47.7%90.8%Kimi K2.6
Chess puzzlesNot measured20.0%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured18.0%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
EBR-benchNot measured2.4%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13401470Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: expert13041491Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13531471Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams11561298Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: homework11601310Kimi K2.6
Kagi LLM Benchmark35.1%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
Math benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
AA Math Index20.7Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)20.7%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
OTIS Mock AIME22.5%96.1%Kimi K2.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured57.2%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured25.6%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
ProofBenchNot measured16.0%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MATH level 574.0%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
LMArena Text: math13121474Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work13271480Kimi K2.6
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
MMLU ProNot measured87.6%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured84.7%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)Not measured61.2%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured66.7%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured74.7%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured65.8%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured40.1%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)66.9%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured34.9%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
GeoBench52.0%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
LMArena Text: science13831468Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13911457Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: legal and government13751462Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: business and finance13601445Kimi K2.6
FACTS Benchmark Suite29.1%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured1268Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1263Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured1250Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1249Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: 3DNot measured1267Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured1271Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1181Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1165Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index027
General benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured56.6%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured50.2%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured78.2%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured56.4%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
IFBench31.8%76.0%Kimi K2.6
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)7.3%81.0%Kimi K2.6
DTBench52.5%90.9%Kimi K2.6
LMCA12.3%37.3%Kimi K2.6
Fiction.LiveBench33.3%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)79.9%Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
Furniture assemblyNot measured21.7%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
ExploitBenchNot measured18.4%Only Kimi K2.6 measured
LMArena Text13581455Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: instruction following13211451Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: creative writing13451434Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision11651282Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: English13771460Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: non-English13341446Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Chinese13461520Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: German13621451Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Japanese12871443Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Korean13081427Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: French13681471Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Spanish13491464Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Russian13491446Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: Polish13451438Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn13451453Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: longer queries13331468Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: writing and language13471439Kimi K2.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13201428Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: English11881287Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: Chinese11641346Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: reading text11561291Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: humor11661280Kimi K2.6
LMArena Vision: captioning1151Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1196Not measuredOnly Gemma 3 27B measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing11771273Kimi K2.6
LMArena DocumentNot measured1451Only Kimi K2.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
BenchmarkGemma 3 27BKimi K2.6Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemma 3 27B$0.0002Fits in one request
Kimi K2.6$0.0029Fits in one request

Gemma 3 27B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemma 3 27B$0.0049Fits in one request
Kimi K2.6$0.059Fits in one request

Gemma 3 27B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemma 3 27B$0.019Exceeds the context window
Kimi K2.6$0.230Fits in one request

Gemma 3 27B costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemma 3 27B and Kimi K2.6
SpecificationGoogle Gemma 3 27BMoonshotAI Kimi K2.6
MakerGoogleMoonshot AI
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedMarch 12, 2025April 20, 2026
Context window131K262K
Input $/Mtok$0.08$0.95
Output $/Mtok$0.30$4.00
Coding indexNot benchmarked52.1
Independent measurements behind it03
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.35
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemma 3 27B better than Kimi K2.6 for coding?

Only Kimi K2.6 has a coding score, 52.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemma 3 27B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemma 3 27B for output tokens 13.3x cheaper ($0.30 vs $4.00 per million).

Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Kimi K2.6?

Gemma 3 27B costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Kimi K2.6 costs $0.95 and $4.00. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K2.6 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 3 27B or Kimi K2.6?

Kimi K2.6, with 262K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemma 3 27B vs Kimi K2.6 comparison based on?

51 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemma 3 27B's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Kimi K2.6's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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