Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Grok 3 Mini finishes one point ahead overall, 23 to 22. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Grok 3 Mini's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 74.1 against 43. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 44% to 66.2%. Gemma 3 27B does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Grok 3 Mini gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for Gemma 3 27B.
Pick Grok 3 Mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 3 27B only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority.
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Gemma 3 27B
37
Grok 3 Mini
41.5
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Gemma 3 27B
41.9
Grok 3 Mini
21.7
Gemma 3 27B
43
Grok 3 Mini
74.1
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Gemma 3 27B
44
Grok 3 Mini
39.7
Grok 3 Mini is ahead overall, 23 to 22. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 44% and 66.2%.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 43. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 37. Gemma 3 27B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 44 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemma 3 27B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 41.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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