Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Astra
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Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Astra Comparison Table
Evals updated September 5, 2026Pricing updated September 5, 2026
| Property | Gemma 3 27B | GPT-6 Astra |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | |
| Category | open | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K | 1.1M |
| Parameters | Undisclosed | |
| License | Custom | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.080 | $10.00 |
| Output $/1M | $0.450 | $50.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 86.6% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.030 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 6.67s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 82.1% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.0 to 82.7 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 83.6% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.8 to 84.5 |
| Counting (low) | – | 80.2% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1 |
| Counting (high) | – | 81.1% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 79.7 to 82.4 |
| Identification (low) | – | 89.6% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 92.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 |
| OCR (low) | – | 91.9% ±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.6 to 92.1 |
| OCR (high) | – | 91.5% ±0.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.3 to 91.7 |
| Data Extraction (low) | – | 88.7% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 91.1% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 89.7 to 91.8 |
| Reasoning (low) | – | 87.2% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.1 to 88.1 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 91.2% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.7 to 91.4 |
Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Astra: Overview
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.
GPT-6 Astra is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI that accepts text and image input and produces text output. It is positioned as the company's flagship system for long-horizon end-to-end work spanning complex reasoning, software engineering, computer use, browsing, research and document creation. The model exposes a graduated reasoning effort control with low, medium, high, xhigh and max settings, and it accepts a change to that setting partway through a conversation rather than only at request time. It launches as a single tier with no smaller mini or nano variants, carries a context window of roughly 1.05 million tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, and reports a knowledge cutoff of April 30, 2026.
OpenAI reports evaluation results across agentic, scientific and security benchmarks, including 96.0% on GPQA Diamond, 64.6% on Terminal-Bench Science, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, and a perfect score on ExploitBench, along with near saturation on FrontierMath Tier 4 and ARC-AGI-3. The model supports computer use, structured outputs, streaming, programmatic tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, prompt caching and persisted reasoning, and it keeps earlier context windows searchable so it can recover requirements or tool outputs from previous turns. OpenAI describes Astra as the first of its models to cross the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
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Gemma 3 27B has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.
Gemma 3 27B is released under Custom, while GPT-6 Astra uses Proprietary. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and OCR in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.