Gemma 4 12B IT
Gemma 4 12B IT is worth evaluating for coding, rag, and agents when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, rag, and agents
- 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
- 11.9B
- Architecture
- encoder_free_unified_multimodal
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Specialization
- general
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Training
- finetuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · Hugging Face Inference Endpoints
About
Instruction-tuned 12B Gemma 4 model with native text, image, video, and audio input through an encoder-free unified architecture. It runs on 16 GB VRAM in BF16, supports a 256K context window, configurable thinking mode, function calling, structured outputs, and 140+ languages, making it the mid-sized Gemma 4 option between E4B and the 26B MoE.
Gemma 4 12B IT 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. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 78.8, MMLU PRO 77.2, and LiveCodeBench 72.0.
Top use-case fit
Coding
1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | - | - | Partial |
| Kaggle Models | - | - | Partial |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 78.8 | Diamond | https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it |
| MMLU PRO | 77.2 | MMLU Pro | https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it |
| LiveCodeBench | 72.0 | v6 pass@1 | https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it |
| AIME 2026 | 77.5 | no tools / no calculator | https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.