How much does Gemma 4 27B cost?

Gemma 4 27B is published as open weights (Apache 2.0) — there is no per-token API price. You self-host the model and pay infrastructure cost (GPU rental and operating overhead). Effective cost on commodity 24-48GB GPUs typically lands at $0.10-$0.50 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Gemma 4 27B?

Gemma 4 27B supports a context window of 128K tokens (128,000 tokens) and can generate up to 8K output tokens per request.

What is Gemma 4 27B best for?

Gemma 4 27B is best for: Self-hosted general purpose. It supports chat, function_calling, code capabilities. It is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Gemma 4 27B

Googleopen-sourceOpen Source

Google's open-weight flagship under Apache 2.0: April 2026. Designed for self-host with strong instruction-following and tool calling.

Context Window

128K

tokens

Max Output

tokens

Input Price

Self-host

open weights

Output Price

Self-host

infra cost only

Speed

142

tokens/sec

Released

Apr 2026

2026-04-09

Blended Cost

—

self-host

Value Score

—

n/a self-host

Capabilities

ChatFunction CallingCode Generation

Benchmarks

Quality Index

MMLU Pro

79.2

HumanEval (Coding)

81.4

MATH

73.6

Arena ELO

1351

Price vs Quality

Context Window in Context

Grok 3131K
▸ Gemma 4 27B128K
GPT-4o128K
GPT-4o Mini128K
Mistral Large 2128K
DeepSeek V3128K
DeepSeek R1128K
Command R+128K

Bar length is logarithmic — each full step is 10× the tokens. Shown against the models with the nearest context windows, not the directory extremes.

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Compare With

Open Source: Licensed under Apache 2.0

Non è ancora sul nostro gateway

Gemma 4 27B è a pesi aperti, quindi puoi eseguirlo tu stesso. Swfte Connect trasforma il tuo deployment in un endpoint gestito che parla la stessa API di ogni altro modello di questa directory.

La richiesta

curl https://api.swfte.com/agents/v2/gateway/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SWFTE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "google:gemma-4-27b",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

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About Gemma 4 27B

Gemma 4 27B is a open-source AI model by Google, released on April 9, 2026. It supports a context window of 128K tokens and can generate up to 8K output tokens.

Gemma 4 27B is published as open weights (Apache 2.0) for self-hosting. There is no per-token API price. Cost depends on your inference infrastructure: GPU rental, throughput per GPU, and operating overhead. For commodity 24-48GB GPUs the effective cost typically lands in the $0.10-$0.50 per million output tokens range, well below the cheapest hosted alternatives.

Gemma 4 27B is available as an open-source model under the Apache 2.0 license, meaning you can self-host it for predictable costs or use it through API providers like Swfte Connect.

Using Gemma 4 27B with Swfte

Access Gemma 4 27B through Swfte Connect, our unified LLM gateway. Connect gives you a single API for 50+ models, with automatic routing, cost optimization, and fallback handling. You can also try Gemma 4 27B in our AI Playground before integrating.