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Claude Fable 5 vs Gemma 3 27B IT

Claude Fable 5 grades higher overall (90.7 against 43.2). Gemma 3 27B IT costs 100% less for the same work.

Claude Fable 5

by Anthropic · #3 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$10.00
Output / 1M
$50.00

Gemma 3 27B IT

by Google · #55 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
128K
Input / 1M
$0.080
Output / 1M
$0.16

Better overall

Claude Fable 5

Grade 90.7 vs 43.2

Cheaper

Gemma 3 27B IT

100% less, $0.10 vs $20.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Fable 5

1M vs 128K tokens

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,503
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: 1,366
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,624
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: —
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 1,551
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: 1,358
Aider Polyglot% of exercises solved · Aider (aider.chat) · Mar 15, 2025
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: —
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: 4.9%
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 95%v
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: —
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: 80%v
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: —
Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Jun 9, 2026 · reference
Gemma 3 27B ITGemma 3 27B IT: —
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Mar 11, 2026 · reference
Claude Fable 5Claude Fable 5: —

Claude Fable 5Gemma 3 27B ITv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Fable 5$4,000 /month
Gemma 3 27B IT$22.40 /month

Gemma 3 27B IT saves you $3,978 a month at this usage, $47,731 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Fable 5Gemma 3 27B IT
Made byAnthropicGoogle
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.7Good · 43.2
Overall rank#3 of 67#55 of 67
Input price$10.00 per 1M$0.080 per 1M
Output price$50.00 per 1M$0.16 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens131,072 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesNo
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-fable-5gemma-3-27b-it

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-fable-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "gemma-3-27b-it", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Fable 5 or Gemma 3 27B IT better?

Claude Fable 5 grades 90.7 against 43.2 for Gemma 3 27B IT, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Gemma 3 27B IT?

Gemma 3 27B IT: $0.080 in and $0.16 out per million tokens, against $10.00 and $50.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Fable 5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), Aider (aider.chat), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.