Gemma 2 27B pricing and routing profile
Gemma 2 27B from Google lists at $0.65 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens, with a 8,192-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
Structured output
Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.397 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.56 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $5.53 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Gemma 2 27B. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Gemma 2 27B that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| UnslopNemo 12B | $0.40 / $0.40 | 38% |
| Mistral Small 3.1 24B | $0.351 / $0.555 | 41% |
| Cydonia 24B V4.1 | $0.30 / $0.50 | 49% |
| DeepSeek V3.2 | $0.28 / $0.42 | 53% |
| DeepSeek V3.2 Exp | $0.27 / $0.41 | 55% |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | $0.15 / $0.60 | 65% |
Questions
How much does Gemma 2 27B cost?
Gemma 2 27B lists at $0.65 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.56 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Gemma 2 27B?
8,192 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Gemma 2 27B?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Gemma 2 27B on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.