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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemma 3 27B

We don't benchmark Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemma 3 27B on Vision Evals. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is proprietary under Proprietary: commercial use per vendor terms. Gemma 3 27B is open-weight under Custom. Gemma 3 27B is cheaper per token ($0.08/M vs $3/M input). Test them side by side on your own images below.

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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemma 3 27B Comparison Table

Pricing updated November 4, 2026

PropertyClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemma 3 27B
OrganizationAnthropicGoogle
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateSep 2025Mar 2025
Context Window200K128K
ParametersUnknownUnknown
LicenseProprietaryCustom
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsSee license terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$3.00$0.080
Output $/1M$15.00$0.350
Vision Tasks
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoNot listed
Both support 8 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemma 3 27B: Overview

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is the company’s most advanced Sonnet-series model, built for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic workflows. It is a multimodal system that accepts both text and images, with a 200,000-token context window designed for handling large documents and extended interactions. Anthropic highlights its improvements in reliability, reduced sycophancy, and alignment, making it suitable for sustained enterprise use.

It introduces infrastructure features such as a memory tool (beta), checkpointing for Claude Code, parallel tool use, and tighter integration with VS Code. Compared to Opus, which targets broader reasoning, Sonnet 4.5 is optimized for structured, long-duration tasks. Positioned against leading offerings from OpenAI and Google, it is aimed at enterprise automation, software engineering, and research-intensive applications.

Gemma 3 27B

Gemma 3 27B, announced on March 12, 2025, is the largest open-weight model in Google DeepMind’s Gemma 3 family. With around 27 billion parameters, it is multimodal—accepting both text and images as input and producing text outputs. It supports a 128,000-token context window and typically generates up to ~8,192 tokens, enabling it to process multi-page documents, extended conversations, or large batches of images in a single prompt.

The model is instruction-tuned in its “-it” variants for chat, reasoning, and summarization use cases, and it supports structured outputs and function calling. It is multilingual, covering over 140 languages. Deployment is flexible: the full BF16 model requires ~46 GB of VRAM, but quantization-aware training (QAT) versions in 8-bit or 4-bit reduce the footprint significantly, allowing more accessible use outside large-scale clusters. While it delivers stronger reasoning and multimodal performance than smaller Gemma models, it remains lighter and more open than proprietary systems, making it well-suited for research, development, and fine-tuned applications.