Identity
- Status
- active
- Developer ID
google/gemma-4-12B-it- Released
- May 23, 2026
- Version
- Gemma 4 12B
- License
- apache-2.0
Google DeepMindGemma 4 12B
Gemma 4 12B is an instruction-tuned, open-weight Google Gemma 4 multimodal reasoning model.
- Token context
- 262K tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Audio
- Outputs
- Text
- Released
- May 23, 2026
Providers & Pricing
1 current hosted offerings
No Directly Sourced Provider Price Yet
API pricing is provider-specific and stays unknown until a serving provider publishes an exact offering for this model version.
At a Glance
Model Facts
Capacity
- Token context
- 262K tokens
- Maximum output
- Unknown
- Total parameters
- 12B
- Active parameters
- Unknown
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not reported
Interface and Access
- Inputs
- Text, Image, Video, Audio
- Outputs
- Text
- API available
- Yes
- Open weights
- Yes
- Self-hostable
- Yes
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Vision
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Capabilities
- chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, tools
This page represents one developer model product. Dated API snapshots, serving endpoints, pricing, regions, quantizations, and service tiers attach as versioned aliases or provider details and never create duplicate public model records.
Version Lineage
PredecessorUnknown
SuccessorsUnknown
AliasesGemma 4 12B, gemma-4-12B-it, google/gemma-4-12B-it
Explicit Unknowns
- Maximum output
- Tokenizer
- Knowledge cutoff
- Provider pricing
Primary Evidence
Sources and Observation Date
Comparable Peers
Related Model Comparisons
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Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Claude Opus 4.5Anthropic | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle DeepMind | family variantsimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Gemma 4 31BGoogle DeepMind | family variantsimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Gemma 4 E2BGoogle DeepMind | family variantsaudio, image, text, video |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Gemma 4 E4BGoogle DeepMind | family variantsaudio, image, text, video |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | cross-developer peerstext | |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs |  Muse Spark 1.2Meta | cross-developer peersaudio, image, text, video |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs |  Ministral 3 14B Base 2512Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Gemma 4 12BGoogle DeepMind | vs | Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512Mistral AI | cross-developer peersimage, text |
Questions
Gemma 4 12B FAQs
What is Gemma 4 12B?+
Gemma 4 12B is an instruction-tuned, open-weight Google Gemma 4 multimodal reasoning model. It is developed by Google DeepMind and its current sourced lifecycle status is active.
What inputs and outputs does Gemma 4 12B support?+
Gemma 4 12B's current record lists Text, Image, Video, and Audio as input and Text as output.
How much context does Gemma 4 12B support?+
The current record lists a 262K-token context window and does not report a maximum output length.
Is Gemma 4 12B available through an API?+
Gemma 4 12B is marked as API-available. The directly sourced provider records currently include Together Ai.
How large is Gemma 4 12B?+
The current record lists 12B total parameters and an unknown active parameter count. Its architecture is Gemma4UnifiedForConditionalGeneration.
What capabilities and tasks does Gemma 4 12B support?+
Gemma 4 12B's recorded capabilities are chat, generation, reasoning, structured outputs, and tools. Its supported tasks are image, reasoning, and text.
How much does Gemma 4 12B cost through an API?+
No directly sourced token price is currently attached to Gemma 4 12B. Missing prices remain unknown rather than being inferred from another model or provider.
Can Gemma 4 12B be self-hosted?+
Gemma 4 12B is an open-weight model. Self-hosting is supported, and the recorded license is apache-2.0.
Does Gemma 4 12B have related versions or aliases?+
No predecessor is recorded. No successor is recorded. Recorded aliases are Gemma 4 12B, gemma-4-12B-it, and google/gemma-4-12B-it.
Which models can Gemma 4 12B be compared with?+
The current compatible peer set includes Claude Opus 4.5, Gemma 4 26B A4B, Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 E2B, and Gemma 4 E4B. Compatibility requires shared sourced modalities and tasks; it does not imply that one model is better. Browse model comparisons →