Gemma 4 12B is Google's language model. A mid-size 12B-parameter open-weight language model from Google's Gemma 4 series, designed for efficient text generation and instruction following.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemma-4-12b
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters12B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#188
Coding Index
#111
GPQA
#209
HLE
#147
IFBench
#39
Time to First Token
#469
SciCode
#185
LCR
#164
TerminalBench Hard
#164
TAU2
#228
Output TPS
#105

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Gemma 4 12B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 29 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
Standard_NV16as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2532 GB$0.932/hr
Standard_NP10sAzureAMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)64 GB$1.65/hr
g6e.xlargeAWSL40S45 GB$1.86/hr
7 more instances can run Gemma 4 12B
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemma 4 12BCurrent
Gemma 4 31B256K$0.140$0.400Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B256K$0.130$0.400Available
Gemma 4 31BAvailable
Gemma 4 26B A4BAvailable
Gemma 4 E4BAvailable
Gemma 4 E2B128K$0.040$0.080Available
Gemma 4Available
Gemma 4 E4BAvailable
Gemma 4 E2BAvailable
Gemma 4 12B InstructAvailable

Model IDs

gemma-4-12b
gemma-4-12b-non-reasoning
google-gemma-4-12b