Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemma 3 27B is a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model from Google DeepMind, released in March 2025 alongside the Gemma 3 12B as the higher-capability variant in the series, built with native vision-language support for text and image inputs across a 128K token context window. Among the Gemma 3 releases, the 27B delivered the strongest results on instruction-following and knowledge-intensive reasoning tasks, making it the preferred option for developers needing greater accuracy from a self-hostable model. Its open-weight availability under a permissive license made it a common starting point for vision-language fine-tuning projects.
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking, released by OpenAI in November 2025, is an extended reasoning variant from the GPT-5.1 family that applies chain-of-thought processing to improve accuracy on complex reasoning, mathematics, and coding tasks. It targets analytical workflows where deliberate reasoning over a problem significantly improves output quality.
7 months newer

Gemma 3 27B
Google DeepMind
2025-03-12

GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
2025-11
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemma 3 27B
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Gemma 3 27B
GPT-5.1 Thinking