Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 vs gemma-3-27b-it

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 31 July 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
27.8 B
Context
—
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B · Open weights
Params
27.4 B
Context
—
30d
857 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 gemma-3-27b-it
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 27.8 B 27.4 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 1,439,590 857,335
Downloads all time 37.1 M 16.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-21 2025-03-01
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.08
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.45
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.53
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.04
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter 10.1
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter 0.1
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 117,964
API providers not on OpenRouter 4
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

gemma-3-27b-it $0.53

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

9.5 M857 K
Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 gemma-3-27b-it

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 · fp16 38.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gemma-3-27b-it · fp16 65.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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