GoogleReleased on Mar 12, 2025

Gemma 3 12B: Benchmarks, Pricing & Size

Gemma 3 12B is a language model from Google, released in March 2025, with multimodal input.

Gemma 3 12B is a 12-billion-parameter vision-language model from Google, handling text and image input and generating text output. It features a 128K context window, multilingual support, and open weights. Suitable for question answering,

Input
TextImage
Output
Text
Speed
Latency p95200ms
Throughput P9533.0char/s
Cost
$0.06/ 1M · 8:1 in:out
$0.05 in · $0.10 out

Gemma 3 12B pricing

Providers

Gemma 3 12B starts at $0.0500 per million input tokens and $0.100 per million output tokens via DeepInfra.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MMax InputMax OutputLatency p95 sThroughput P95QuantInputOutput
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.0500$0.100131.1K131.1K
0.20
33 c/s
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Gemma 3 12B model size

Gemma 3 12B has 12 billion parameters and was trained on 12 trillion tokens. See how it compares to other models in the same parameter range.

ParametersTraining tokens
12B
12Ttokens
1000× tokens-to-params ratio
Medium (10–30B)
12B
1B7B70B405B

Gemma 3 12B API

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Gemma 3 12B examples

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Gemma 3 12B license

Gemma 3 12B is released under the Gemma license, which permits commercial use, has 12.0B parameters.

License
Gemma
Commercial use allowed
Parameters
12.0B

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FAQ

Common questions about Gemma 3 12B.

When was Gemma 3 12B released?

Gemma 3 12B was released on March 12, 2025 by Google. This is the official Gemma 3 12B release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How big is Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B has 12 billion parameters. It was trained on 12.0 trillion tokens. It ships as an open-weight model, so you can download and run it on your own hardware.

Who created Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B was created by Google.

What is the license for Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B is released under the Gemma license. This is an open-source / open-weight license that permits self-hosting.

Is Gemma 3 12B multimodal?

Yes, Gemma 3 12B is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

Where can I use Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B is available through 1 provider including DeepInfra.

Where is the Gemma 3 12B paper or technical report?

Gemma 3 12B has a paper or technical report available at https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.