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Gemma 2 27B

Larger Gemma 2, competitive with Llama 70B on some benchmarks at half the size.

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Quick facts

Released
Jun 2024
Context
8.2K tokens
Output / 1M
Pricing not published
License
Gemma License

About Gemma 2 27B

Gemma 2 27B punches above its weight on English benchmarks, often landing within striking distance of Llama-3 70B at meaningfully lower inference cost. Built on Gemini-related research with extensive distillation and curated data work.

The short 8k context window is a real limitation for RAG and long-doc workloads. For chat, classification, and short-form generation, it's a strong open-weight pick.

Benchmarks

Published scores from Google's model card or independent leaderboards. We do not publish numbers we cannot source, see methodology.

HumanEval
,
Python coding pass@1
MMLU
75.2
Broad academic knowledge
GPQA
,
Graduate-level reasoning
SWE-bench
,
Real software-engineering tasks
  • MMLU75.2

Capabilities

Strengths

  • Strong quality-per-parameter
  • Well-supported

Tracked weaknesses

  • Short context

Pricing

Per-million-token rates as published by Google.

Per-token pricing not yet published for Gemma 2 27B. Check the official provider site for current tiers.

Call Gemma 2 27B from your code

Drop-in snippet for the Google SDK. Set your API key in the environment and run.

typescript
import { GoogleGenerativeAI } from "@google/generative-ai";

const genAI = new GoogleGenerativeAI(process.env.GEMINI_API_KEY);
const model = genAI.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemma-2-27b" });

const result = await model.generateContent(
  "What's the time complexity of quicksort?",
);

console.log(result.response.text());

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Frequently asked

  • How much does Gemma 2 27B cost?
    Google has not published per-token API pricing for Gemma 2 27B at the time of writing. Check the official site for current pricing tiers, or compare against alternative models on LLMDex.
  • What is Gemma 2 27B's context window?
    Gemma 2 27B supports a context window of 8.2K tokens.
  • Is Gemma 2 27B open source?
    Gemma 2 27B ships with open weights under the Gemma License license. You can self-host it, fine-tune it, and (subject to the license terms) deploy it commercially.
  • When was Gemma 2 27B released?
    Gemma 2 27B was released on Jun 27, 2024 by Google.
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