As of August 20, 2026, Gemma 3 27B is 91% cheaper per million tokens than Seed 2.0 Pro. Gemma 3 27B is $0.10 / $0.20 per million input/output tokens versus Seed 2.0 Pro at $0.50 / $3.00. Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Sources: Gemini API pricing (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing); AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
Gemma 3 27B
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.20
Seed 2.0 Pro
ByteDance
Input
$0.50
Output
$3.00
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Gemma 3 27BSeed 2.0 ProVerdict
Gemma 3 27B offers significantly lower pricing, while Seed 2.0 Pro leads on benchmark performance. Your choice depends on whether cost efficiency or raw capability matters more for your use case.
As of August 20, 2026, Gemma 3 27B is 91% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Gemma 3 27B costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens ($0.30 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Seed 2.0 Pro costs $0.50 / $3.00 per million tokens ($3.50 blended). Sources: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Gemma 3 27B Gemini API pricing is $0.10 input and $0.20 output per million tokens via Google. Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance API pricing is $0.50 input and $3.00 output per million tokens via ByteDance. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Seed 2.0 Pro has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 76.5%. Gemma 3 27B does not have that eval on this page yet.
Gemma 3 27B supports a 131K token context window, while Seed 2.0 Pro supports 256K tokens. Seed 2.0 Pro offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Seed 2.0 Pro leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks versus Gemma 3 27B's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Gemma 3 27B and Seed 2.0 Pro are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Gemma 3 27B has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Gemma 3 27B through Google and Seed 2.0 Pro through ByteDance with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Gemini API pricing and ByteDance API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Gemma 3 27B supports up to 131K output tokens per request, while Seed 2.0 Pro supports up to 66K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Gemma 3 27B runs at approximately 33 tokens/second while Seed 2.0 Pro runs at 5.593776158213053 tokens/second. Gemma 3 27B is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Gemma 3 27B or Seed 2.0 Pro from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Gemma 3 27B costs $0.10/M input and $0.20/M output. Seed 2.0 Pro costs $0.50/M input and $3.00/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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