Qwen3-8B 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 | Qwen3-8B | gemma-2-27b-it |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.2 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 | 8,164,793 | 19,598 |
| Downloads all time | 133.8 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 | not on OpenRouter | $0.65 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.65 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 2,048 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | No |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
gemma-2-27b-it
$1.30
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
16.6 M19 K
Qwen3-8B
gemma-2-27b-it
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
gemma-2-27b-it · fp16
64.5 GB / 24 GB