Model

Gemma 3 27B (Google)

Fast access (US)US Controlled · 0/100

Call Gemma 3 27B (Google) through Frontière AI's OpenAI-compatible API — fast access via a US provider, not EU sovereign: licence, per-token price.

€0.0135

Input — per 100k tokens

€0.074

Output — per 100k tokens

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About this model

Gemma 3 27B (gemma-3-27b-it) is the instruction-tuned 27-billion-parameter model of Google's Gemma 3 family, released in March 2025 and authored by Google DeepMind. Its model card describes Gemma as built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. It takes text and images and generates text, with a 128K-token input context and up to 8,192 output tokens. The card cites support for over 140 languages, and Google's launch post says Gemma 3 supports function calling and structured output. It suits multilingual question answering, summarisation and image understanding. The weights are distributed under Google's Gemma Terms of Use, not Apache 2.0. Mistral Small 3.2 24B, of similar size, also reads images and is Apache 2.0.

Sources, checked on 22 September 2026: huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-27b-it ↗ · blog.google ↗ · huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506 ↗

Specifications

API model id
gemma-3-27b
Availability
Live
Hosting jurisdiction
Fast access (US)
Served via
OpenRouter
Publisher
Google
Parameters
27B
Licence
Gemma Terms of Use
Context window
128k
Modality
Multimodal (text + image)

Open weights & AI Act facts

Factual characteristics of this model's weights — stated, not certified. Under the EU AI Act, whether a deployment is compliant depends on the model, your role and your use case.

Open weights
Weights public — use governed by the licence above
AI Act class
GPAI — general-purpose AI
Systemic risk
Below the systemic-risk threshold
Data retention
None at Frontière AI; provider-side retention follows the policy of whichever provider OpenRouter picks (not verified by us)

Frontière Verified

Our 6-criteria checklist for this model. Each criterion is assessed independently — a checkmark means we ran, recorded and passed the check; an empty circle means not confirmed yet.

✓
License verified
License checked and confirmed
✓
Provenance verified
Weights confirmed on HF, publisher verified
○
Security analyzed
Not confirmed
○
GDPR assessed
Not confirmed
✓
Benchmarks run
Quality, latency and throughput measured through the gateway, dated per route
✓
API tested
Real call through the gateway (dated in the registry)

Compliance evidence

Provider facts for this model's serving path, as documented by Frontière AI; the retention row quotes each provider's own documentation where it exists. Dates reflect the most recent documented audit of each fact.

Last verified: 2026-08-17

Provider / operator
OpenRouter (US company, New York)
Country
United States
Ownership / control
US-controlled — CLOUD Act applies
Jurisdiction
US (uncontrolled provider pool)
Deployment
Third-party provider pool
Data retention
None at Frontière AI; provider-side retention follows the policy of whichever provider OpenRouter picks (not verified by us)

Frontière AI retains neither prompts nor completions from API calls; processing is structured to fit a short DPA (Art. 28 GDPR). DPA and subprocessor documentation available on request.

What its label means

This model is served through infrastructure controlled by a US company, which remains subject to the US CLOUD Act even when it runs in an EU region. We label it “fast access”, never sovereign, and it is flagged in the API response before you call it — so the choice is yours, made with full information.

How we draw the line: GDPR vs. the CLOUD Act →

Sovereignty Score — 0/100

Deterministic 0–100 score computed from the five factors below — ownership, hosting jurisdiction, cloud-provider control, data retention, deployment control. Full methodology: How Frontière AI determines sovereignty →

Operating-company ownership
0/40
Hosting jurisdiction (observed)
0/30
Cloud-provider control
0/15
Data retention
0/10
Deployment control
0/5

Effective provider assessed: openrouter.

Calling it

The API is OpenAI-compatible. Change base_url and the key, then use this model id:

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://getfrontiereai.eu/api/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["FRONTIERE_KEY"],
)

reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemma-3-27b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Bonjour"}],
)

One key covers the whole catalog — you switch models by changing a single string.

API reference →

Pricing

The price you see is the price debited from your prepaid balance, margin and VAT included — not an infrastructure cost. No subscription: top up from €10; calls are refused once the balance reaches zero, and a call already running can take it slightly below — deducted from your next top-up.

What will it cost you?

Pick a workload or type your own token counts: the estimate uses the prices above, margin and VAT included.

Example workload

Roughly 1,000 tokens ≈ 750 English words.

No discounted cache rate on this model: every input token is billed at the input rate.

Per request

€0.00046

Per day

€0.4603

Per month

€13.81

30 days

A €10 top-up covers about 21,724 requests · Gemma 3 27B

Where the money goes

  • Input€6.05 · 44%
  • Output€7.76 · 56%

Estimate, margin and VAT included, from the prices on this page. You are billed on the tokens the provider reports for each call, debited from a prepaid balance — no subscription.

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FAQ

Is Gemma 3 27B (Google) GDPR-compliant on Frontière AI?

This model is labeled “fast access”, not sovereign: it is served through OpenRouter, controlled by a US company and therefore subject to the CLOUD Act even in an EU region. For regulated workloads, pick a model from the sovereign tier. In either case, Frontière AI stores neither the prompts nor the completions from API calls.

How much does Gemma 3 27B (Google) cost?

€0.0135 per 100,000 input tokens and €0.074 per 100,000 output tokens — margin and VAT included, that is the amount debited from your prepaid balance. No subscription: you top up from €10; calls are refused once the balance reaches zero, and a call already running can take it slightly below — deducted from your next top-up.

How do I call Gemma 3 27B (Google) from my code?

The API is OpenAI-compatible: point base_url at https://getfrontiereai.eu/api/v1, swap the key, and pass “gemma-3-27b” as the model field. Your SDK, scripts and tools keep working, streaming included.

Under which licence is Gemma 3 27B (Google) released?

Gemma Terms of Use — this is not a permissive Apache- or MIT-style licence. Worth flagging if you run a legal review of licences before deployment.

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