Anthropic's most capable Opus yet, built for long-horizon autonomous agents and frontier coding.
Google's open multimodal model with 128K context and 140+ language support.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher (89.2 vs 64.6). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Gemma 3 27B has a lower blended cost. Claude Opus 4.8: $5.00 input / $25.00 output. Gemma 3 27B: $0.10 input / $0.30 output.
Claude Opus 4.8 has a larger context window: Claude Opus 4.8 supports 1M tokens vs Gemma 3 27B at 110K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 3 27B support vision/image input.
Key differences: Claude Opus 4.8 has a notably higher capability index (24.6 point gap); Gemma 3 27B is significantly cheaper; only Claude Opus 4.8 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 3 27B for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.