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Gemma 4 12B Instruct

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Gemma 4 12B Instruct is Google's language model with a 16K context window and up to 16K output tokens, starting at $0.3 / 1M input and $2.00 / 1M output. 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
Providers
Context Window16K tokens
Max Output16K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Reasoning Effortsdefault
Parameters12B

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities4/13
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·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandardFlex
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
Cache Read
$ / 1M
Sail
sail/google/gemma-4-12B-it
$0.3$2.00$0.15$0.05$1.00$0.02

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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/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 Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Gemma 4 12B Instruct—16K$0.300$2.00Current
Gemma 4 31B————Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B————Available
Gemma 4 26B A4B—256K$0.130$0.400Available
Gemma 4 31B—256K$0.140$0.400Available
Gemma 4 12B————Available
Gemma 4 E4B————Available
Gemma 4 E4B————Available
Gemma 4 E2B—128K$0.040$0.080Available
Gemma 4————Available
Gemma 4 E2B————Available

Model IDs

google-gemma-4-12b-instruct
huggingface-vlm-gemma-4-12b-it
sail/google/gemma-4-12B-it