Gemma 3 12B

Name: Gemma 3 12B
Author: Google DeepMind

Released

2026-01-01

Last refreshed

2026-06-29

Status

Researched 133d ago

Open weightsCommercial use: conditionalClassificationJSON / Tool use

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Specifications

Family: Gemma 3
Released: 2026-01-01
Context: 33k
Parameters: 12B
Architecture: Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff: 2024-08
Specialization: general
Openness: Open weights
License: GemmaCommercial use: conditional
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown

Created by

Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom

Founded 2014

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.100

Input / 1M

$0.050

Cheapest of 5 routes · Novita AI

Providers(5)

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About

Gemma 3 12B is Google DeepMind's Gemma 3 model. It offers a 33K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 5

Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Novita AI	$0.050	$0.100	Serverless
GCP Vertex AI	$0.040	$0.130	Serverless
OpenRouter	$0.040	$0.130	Serverless
AWS Bedrock	$0.300	$0.300	Serverless

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