Google · 2024-07-13
Gemma 2 27B pricing
Gemma 2 27B by Google is an open model built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Gemma 2 27B costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $37.05 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $644 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $484 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extract | scaledown | $0.04 | $0 | – | 1M | $1.80 |
| Summarize | scaledown | $0.04 | $0 | – | 1M | $1.80 |
| Nex-N2.5-Mini | nex-agi | $0.025 | $0.10 | $0.0025 | 262K | $2.33 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Schematron V2 Turbo | inference-net | $0.03 | $0.15 | $0.03 | 128K | $3.15 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Gemini models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 4 Argon | $2 | $10 | $0.10 | 1.05M | $210 |
| Nano Banana 2.1 | $1.50 | $7.50 | – | 66K | $158 |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | $0.825 | $4.13 | $0.083 | 1.05M | $86.62 |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite | $0.30 | $2.50 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $43.50 |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | $0.75 | $3.75 | $0.075 | 1.05M | $78.75 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Gemma 2 27B: questions
How much does Gemma 2 27B cost?
$0.65 per 1M input tokens and $0.65 per 1M output tokens. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0010.
What is Gemma 2 27B’s context window?
8,192 tokens, with up to 2,048 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemma 2 27B?
Extract costs $0.04 in and $0 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Gemma 2 27B’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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