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Gemma 2

GoogleReleased 27 Jun 2024OpenDate verified
9785–109Index score#190 of 229 models
1/ 8Core tests taken1 of 6 areas · plus 5 anchor tests
−14Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Jun 2024)Replaced by Gemma 3
$0.65/ $0.65Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
8KContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

GPT-4 reached this score 15 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
36%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
no result
Codingno evidence yet
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
no result
Novel problemsno evidence yet
ARC-AGI-2
no result
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Replaced by Gemma 3; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

API providers 1 · per million tokens, in / out

NNextBit$0.65 / $0.65 · int4cheapest

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Facts and sources

Released27 Jun 2024
Announcementblog.google ↗
Release entryGemma 2
Scored asGemma 2 27B
Artificial Analysis index–
Output speed–

Google releasesaround this one