Gemma 3 12B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: February 15, 2026 at 08:07 AM

Overview

Gemma 3 12B was released on March 13, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.030 per million input tokens and $0.100 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 131K tokens. API access is available through Google.

Context Window

131K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.030

Output$0.100

Cached$0.015

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output34 tok/s

TTFT11.94s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionToolsCaching

Pricing Comparison

Compare Gemma 3 12B with 10 similar models by price.

Current Pricing (per 1M tokens)

11 models

Provider	Model	Input $/M	Output $/M	Coding	MMLU	GPQA	Context	Actions
G Google	Gemma 3 12B	$0.030	$0.100	13.7	59.5	34.9	131,072	Try
MI Nousresearch	DeepHermes 3 Mistral 24B Preview	$0.020	$0.100	19.5	58.0	38.2	32,768	Try
G Google	Gemma 3n 4B	$0.020	$0.040	14.6	48.8	29.6	32,768	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama Guard 3 8B	$0.020	$0.060	—	—	—	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.020	$0.020	8.3	34.7	25.5	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	$0.020	$0.050	11.6	47.6	25.9	16,384	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Nemo	$0.020	$0.040	—	26.4	8.7	131,072	Try
M Meta-llama	Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.200	1.9	20.0	19.6	60,000	Try
MI Mistral AI	Mistral Small 3.1 24B	$0.030	$0.110	21.2	65.9	45.4	131,072	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-20b	$0.030	$0.140	77.7	74.8	68.8	131,072	Try
QW Qwen	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	$0.030	$0.090	12.6	47.3	33.9	32,768	Try

* Some models use tiered pricing based on prompt length. Displayed prices are for prompts ≤ 200k tokens.

Compare Providers

Gemma 3 12B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.030

Cheapest Input/M

$0.100

Cheapest Output/M

Chutes

Best Price

Provider Pricing

4 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
C Chutes Best Price	$0.030	$0.100	100.0%
D DeepInfra	$0.040	$0.130	100.0%
C Crusoe	$0.080	$0.300	100.0%
C Cloudflare	$0.350	$0.560	-

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

8.8 (3th pct)

Coding

6.3 (7th pct)

Math

18.3 (19th pct)

MMLU Pro

59.5 (18th pct)

GPQA

34.9 (13th pct)

LiveCodeBench

13.7 (5th pct)

AIME

22.0 (36th pct)

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