Gemma 3 27B API Pricing
Google · context window 131K · prices updated 2026-10-30
Where Gemma 3 27B sits on price
At $0.35 per million output tokens, Gemma 3 27B is a budget tier model — 6.3× cheaper than the median output price of $2.20, which puts it cheaper than 85% and pricier than 15% of the models we track. It sits 4th cheapest of the 37 Google models we track. Output costs 4.4× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 50% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 50% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Gemma 3 27B
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.35/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $234 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $2.77 |
| Document pipeline — 10K docs/day (3K in / 500 out) Batch-friendly: no user waiting, so a ~50% batch discount usually applies. | $0.0004 | $125 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Gemma 3 27B with caching and batch options.
Gemma 3 27B price history
Google last cut Gemma 3 27B's output price on Oct 18, 2026 (-22% per output token), from $0.08/$0.45 to $0.08/$0.35 per 1M in/out. That is the only repricing in the 89 days we have tracked it — worth knowing before you hard-code today's rate into a budget.
| Date | Input /1M | Output /1M | Output change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 2026 (tracking began) | $0.08 | $0.45 | — |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.08 | $0.35 | -22% |
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Aug 2, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Gemma 3 27B vs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (Meta) — 6% cheaper on output, with $0.03 less per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Llama 3.2 3B Instruct pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Gemma 3 27B API cost?
Gemma 3 27B costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.04 per million (50% cheaper). That works out to roughly 2,857,143 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Gemma 3 27B?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $234 per month on Gemma 3 27B. Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Gemma 3 27B's 131K context window?
Sending 131K of input in a single request costs $0.0105 at $0.08 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.0052 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Gemma 3 27B worth the price?
Gemma 3 27B is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 85% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.