Gemma 3 27B (free)
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 27B is Google's latest open source model, successor to [Gemma 2](google/gemma-2-27b-it)
Context window
This model accepts 131K tokens in one request (~98K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
Context size, pricing, and release info in one place.
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Max output tokens
- 8,192 tokens (8K)
- Speed tier
- fast
- Provider
- Release date
- Mar 2025
Capabilities
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- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Not supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Not supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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