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Gemma 3 12B: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window

Gemma 3 12B is a language model from Google, released in March 2025, with multimodal input, a 131K-token context window, and pricing from $0.050/M input and $0.150/M output.

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

Gemma 3 12B benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for Gemma 3 12B across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How Gemma 3 12B holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

Gemma 3 12B Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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Gemma 3 12B pricing

Providers

Gemma 3 12B starts at $0.0500 per million input tokens and $0.150 per million output tokens via DeepInfra.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
DeepInfra logoDeepInfra
$0.0500—$0.150131.1K/131.1K
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Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

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 context window

Input and output token limits for Gemma 3 12B, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
131Ktokens
131Ktokens
≈ 197 pages of text
131K
8K128K1M

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Gemma 3 12B latency

Gemma 3 12B time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.

Gemma 3 12B examples

Recent arena outputs from Gemma 3 12B, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

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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Gemma 3 12B resources

Official sources for Gemma 3 12B: paper or system card, official launch post, model weights.

Gemma 3 12B vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to Gemma 3 12B are Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, Claude 3 Sonnet, GPT-5. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like Gemma 3 12B

Models ranked just above and below Gemma 3 12B by LLM Stats score.

 

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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Claude 3 Sonnet

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GPT-5

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Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

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Qwen2.5 14B Instruct

Score pending
 

o1-preview

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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 much does Gemma 3 12B cost?

Gemma 3 12B pricing starts at $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens via DeepInfra, the lowest price among tracked providers.

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.

What models should I compare Gemma 3 12B against?

Common Gemma 3 12B comparisons include Gemma 3 12B vs Llama 3.1 70B Instruct, Gemma 3 12B vs Claude 3 Sonnet, Gemma 3 12B vs GPT-5. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and provider availability.