Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Sol
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Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Sol Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 7, 2026
| Property | Gemma 3 27B | GPT-6 Sol |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | |
| Category | open | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K | 1.1M |
| Parameters | Unknown | undisclosed |
| License | Custom | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | See license terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.080 | $2.00 |
| Output $/1M | $0.350 | $10.00 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Classification | Supported | Demo |
| Object Detection | Not listed | Demo |
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Not listed | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 76.9% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0074 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 10.20s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 74.7% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.1 to 75.5 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 76.4% ±1.2, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.0 to 77.4 |
| Counting (low) | – | 76.6% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 74.3 to 78.4 |
| Counting (high) | – | 77.5% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 78.4 |
| Identification (low) | – | 93.8% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.8 to 93.8 |
| Identification (high) | – | 92.7% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8 |
| OCR (low) | – | 66.7% |
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| OCR (high) | – | 68.8% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 72.6% ±3.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 69.5 to 76.8 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 77.7% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 76.8 to 78.8 |
Gemma 3 27B vs GPT-6 Sol: 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 Sol is a proprietary multimodal reasoning model from OpenAI, released on September 22, 2026 alongside GPT-6 Luna as an efficiency-oriented tier of the GPT-6 family that began with GPT-6 Astra. OpenAI states that Sol and Luna are trained with methods similar to those used for Astra, carrying the same work on professional tasks, factuality, coding, computer use, and alignment into models that run faster. Sol accepts text and image input and returns text output, and OpenAI documents a context window of roughly one million tokens together with a knowledge cutoff of April 20, 2026.
The model targets complex coding and agentic workflows and exposes a configurable reasoning effort setting with levels of none, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max, which trades latency and token consumption against answer quality. Its vision behavior covers image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, captioning, document and chart interpretation, and text recognition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gemma 3 27B is released under Custom, while GPT-6 Sol uses Proprietary. In practice: GPT-6 Sol: commercial use per vendor terms. 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.