Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
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 Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 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 Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. Gemma 3 27B: $0.10 input / $0.30 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs Gemma 3 27B at 110K tokens.
Yes, both Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemma 3 27B support vision/image input.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 has a notably higher capability index (15.5 point gap); Gemma 3 27B is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 5 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 Sonnet 5 and Gemma 3 27B for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.