Gemma 3 12B IT
Open multimodal Gemma instruction model for multilingual text generation and image understanding
- Strongest at
- Writing Better than 16% of the past year's models · 2 of 4 benchmarks
- Price per 1M tokens
- $0.05 / $0.15 input / output · OpenRouter
- Context window
- 131.1K tokens in · 131.1K out
- Since the last one
- 224 days after Gemma 2 2B IT
Capability profile
Where it lands among 91 models released in the past year. 50 is the average model.
Where these scores come from
Each capability combines the published benchmarks listed here, rescaled so 50 is the reference average and 15 points is one standard deviation. A hollow marker rests on a single benchmark.
Price against capability
The shaded corner holds anything better and cheaper. Prices blend input and output 3 to 1.
Nothing from the past year scores higher on Writing for less.
OpenRouter $0.05 / $0.15
Since Gemma 2 2B IT
6 releases in the Gemma line.
A newer release is out: Gemma 4 12B IT.
Google's past year
37 release days in the past year, about one every 10 days. The next is expected around Nov 3, 2026. Forecasts ↗
Specifications
Specifications and prices from Models.dev; availability and limits may differ by provider. Benchmarks from Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), LiveBench and the other sources named above.