Gemma 4 12B
Gemma 4 12B is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 256k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Gemma 4
- Released
- 2026-06-03
- Context
- 256k
- Parameters
- 12B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 2 routes · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
About
Google DeepMind's 12B open-weight multimodal model (Apache 2.0), designed to run on a 16GB laptop. First medium-sized model with native audio ingestion alongside text and image. Unified encoder-free decoder-only architecture. Supports 140+ languages. MMLU Pro: 77.2%.
Gemma 4 12B is an open-source model in the Gemma 4 family. The structured metadata tracks a 256k-token context window, multimodal input, audio, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and Kaggle Models. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Gemma 4 12B yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | - | - | Partial |
| Kaggle Models | - | - | Partial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Comparison and alternatives
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What is the context window of Gemma 4 12B?
Gemma 4 12B has a context window of 256k tokens.
When was Gemma 4 12B released?
Gemma 4 12B was released on 2026-06-03.
Which providers offer Gemma 4 12B?
Gemma 4 12B is available from 2 providers: Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Kaggle Models.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints