Gemma 2 27B: API pricing, providers and specs
Gemma 2 27B is a text model by Google. 2 providers serve it, from $0.65 to $0.80 /1M; the lowest price is at OpenRouter.
A newer version is out: Gemma 3 27B · released Mar 1, 2025
How Gemma 2 27B compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.65 /1M against a median of $1.10; 41% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 8K-token context window is larger than 1% of them (median 262K), about 10 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #99 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Gemma license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Gemma 2 27B prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.65/1M | From$0.65/1M | — | 8K |
 AIHubMix | $0.80/1M | $0.80/1M | — | — |
- OpenRouterFrom$0.65
- AIHubMix$0.80
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 8K≈ 10 pages of text
- Max output
- 2K
- Capabilities
- JSON
- Released
- Jun 24, 2024
- License
- Gemmacommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 27B
- Arena score
- 1231Text
- Monthly searches
- 14K
Alternatives to Gemma 2 27B
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemma 2 27Bthis model | $0.65/1M | 8K | 1231 | 2 |
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| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
 MiMo-V2.6-Pro | $0.696/1M | 1.05M | 1625 | 21 |
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The lowest price for Gemma 2 27B is $0.65 /1M, at OpenRouter.
OpenRouter, at $0.65 /1M. 2 providers serve Gemma 2 27B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Gemma 2 27B reads up to 8K tokens per request and writes up to 2K.
Yes. Gemma 2 27B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Gemma license.
About 27B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
2 API providers serve Gemma 2 27B. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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