Google: Gemma 3 27B (free)
google/gemma-3-27b-it:free
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Providers for Gemma 3 27B (free)
OpenRouter routes requests to the best providers that are able to handle your prompt size and parameters, with fallbacks to maximize uptime.
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Sample code and API for Gemma 3 27B (free)
OpenRouter normalizes requests and responses across providers for you.
OpenRouter provides an OpenAI-compatible completion API to 300+ models & providers that you can call directly, or using the OpenAI SDK. Additionally, some third-party SDKs are available.
In the examples below, the OpenRouter-specific headers are optional. Setting them allows your app to appear on the OpenRouter leaderboards.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
api_key="<OPENROUTER_API_KEY>",
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
extra_headers={
"HTTP-Referer": "<YOUR_SITE_URL>", # Optional. Site URL for rankings on openrouter.ai.
"X-Title": "<YOUR_SITE_NAME>", # Optional. Site title for rankings on openrouter.ai.
},
extra_body={},
model="google/gemma-3-27b-it:free",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "What is in this image?"
},
{
"type": "image_url",
"image_url": {
"url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg/2560px-Gfp-wisconsin-madison-the-nature-boardwalk.jpg"
}
}
]
}
]
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)Using third-party SDKs
For information about using third-party SDKs and frameworks with OpenRouter, please see our frameworks documentation.
See the Request docs for all possible fields, and Parameters for explanations of specific sampling parameters.