Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Updated October 21, 2026. 39 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 4.9 for Gemma 3 27B.
Pick Gemma 3 27B when output tokens cost 2.9x less, or when what matters is LMArena Text: science or LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 39
- Gemma 3 27B only
- 23
- Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B only
- 13
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B scores 50.0 against 4.9.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B leads, 11.9 against 4.9.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Gemma 3 27B has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.1.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B has a Design Arena: websites result, 1159.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B takes 262K tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Gemma 3 27B
Gemma 3 27B $0.0003, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemma 3 27B 4.9 from 1 benchmark, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 50.0 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 33.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run): Gemma 3 27B 13.7% against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 58.5%, 44.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemma 3 27B $0.35 against Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B $1.00 per million output tokens, 2.9x apart.
- Context window
- Gemma 3 27B takes 131K tokens, Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B 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.
| Category | Gemma 3 27B | Bars | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 4 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 5 | ||
| Math | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 1 | ||
| General | 8 | 11 | ||
| All shared boards | 12 | 27 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 69.6% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1275 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| AA Coding Index | 10.1 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 13.7% | 58.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| SciCode | 23.3% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | 18.9% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 27.2% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 41.2% | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 461.4 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1322 | 1412 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1354 | 1393 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1257 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1287 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 4.9 | 11.9 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.0 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.1 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 10.5% | 43.6% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 42.8% | 61.8% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.4% | 4.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 47.7% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1340 | 1372 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1304 | 1338 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1353 | 1380 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1156 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1160 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 20.7 | 39.3 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 20.7% | 39.3% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 22.5% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| MATH level 5 | 74.0% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1312 | 1365 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1327 | 1367 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index41
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 66.9% | 78.8% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| GeoBench | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1383 | 1347 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1391 | 1347 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1375 | 1358 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1360 | 1343 | Gemma 3 27B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1159 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1112 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1099 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1084 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1143 | Only Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index811
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 31.8% | 40.5% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 7.3% | 45.7% | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| DTBench | 52.5% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMCA | 12.3% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 33.3% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 79.9% | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Text | 1358 | 1357 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1321 | 1355 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1345 | 1333 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Vision | 1165 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1377 | 1359 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1334 | 1346 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1346 | 1357 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: German | 1362 | 1325 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1287 | 1311 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1308 | 1305 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: French | 1368 | 1398 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1349 | 1360 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1349 | 1366 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1345 | 1344 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1345 | 1366 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1333 | 1378 | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1347 | 1340 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1320 | 1317 | Gemma 3 27B |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1188 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1164 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1156 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1166 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1151 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1196 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1177 | Not measured | Only Gemma 3 27B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Gemma 3 27B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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.
| Specification | Google Gemma 3 27B | Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | March 12, 2025 | July 23, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.08 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.35 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 4.9 | 50.0 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemma 3 27B better than Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding?
Pick Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B for coding: it scores 50.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 4.9 for Gemma 3 27B. Pick Gemma 3 27B when output tokens cost 2.9x less, or when what matters is LMArena Text: science or LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Gemma 3 27B costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B costs $0.30 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemma 3 27B or Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B?
Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B, with 262K tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemma 3 27B vs Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B comparison based on?
39 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Gemma 3 27B's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.