Qwen3-32B vs gemma-2-27b-it
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-32B | gemma-2-27b-it |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 32.8 B | 27.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Gemma2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,880,776 | 19,598 |
| Downloads all time | 61.0 M | 5.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-06-24 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.08 | $0.65 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.28 | $0.65 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.36 | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.3 | — |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 16,384 | 2,048 |
| API providers | 3 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-32B
$0.36
gemma-2-27b-it
$1.30
Qwen3-32B is 3.6× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
10.1 M19 K
Qwen3-32B
gemma-2-27b-it
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gemma-2-27b-it · fp16
64.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-32B · fp16
77.5 GB / 24 GB