Gemma 3 270M is Google's language model. An ultra-compact 270-million-parameter Gemma 3 LLM for highly constrained edge deployments.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemma-3-270m
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters0.27B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#523
Math Index
#264
MMLU-Pro
#341
GPQA
#532
HLE
#504
LiveCodeBench
#335
IFBench
#426
Time to First Token
#144
SciCode
#531
AIME 2025
#264
LCR
#447
TerminalBench Hard
#385
TAU2
#390
Output TPS
#378

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Gemma 3 270M, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 1 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g6f.largeAWSL43 GB$0.202/hr
Standard_NV4as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2516 GB$0.233/hr
g6f.xlargeAWSL43 GB$0.237/hr
7 more instances can run Gemma 3 270M
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemma 4 31BAvailable
Gemma 4 26B A4BAvailable
Gemma 4 31B256K$0.140$0.400Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B256K$0.130$0.400Available
Gemma 4 12BAvailable
Gemma 4 E4BAvailable
Gemma 4 E4BAvailable
Gemma 4 E2B128K$0.040$0.080Available
Gemma 4Available
Gemma 4 E2BAvailable
Gemma 3 270MCurrent

Model IDs

gemma-3-270m
google-gemma-3-270m