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Gemma 4 12B Instruct

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Gemma 4 12B Instruct is Google's language model. A multimodal instruction-tuned LLM in the Gemma 4 family, handling image-text-to-text tasks at a 12B parameter scale.
Specifications
Canonical IDgoogle-gemma-4-12b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorGoogleGoogle
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters12B

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 Instruct, 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/hreastus
Standard_NP10sAzureAMD Alveo U250 FPGA (64GB)64 GB$1.65/hreastus
g6e.xlargeAWSL40S45 GB$1.86/hrus-east-1
7 more instances can run Gemma 4 12B Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemma 4 12B Instruct————Current
Gemma 4 31B—256K$0.140$0.400Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B—256K$0.130$0.400Available
Gemma 4 31B————Available
Gemma 4 12B————Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B————Available
Gemma 4 E4B————Available
Gemma 4 E2B—128K$0.040$0.080Available
Gemma 4 E4B————Available
Gemma 4 E2B————Available
Gemma 4————Available

Model IDs

google-gemma-4-12b-instruct
huggingface-vlm-gemma-4-12b-it