Gemma 3 4B API Pricing 2026

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Last updated: January 16, 2026 at 08:05 AM

Overview

Gemma 3 4B was released on March 13, 2025. Pricing starts at $0.017 per million input tokens and $0.068 per million output tokens. The model supports a context window of up to 96K tokens. API access is available through Google.

Context Window

96K

tokens

Pricing

Input$0.017

Output$0.068

per 1M tokens

Speed

Output37 tok/s

TTFT1.01s

median latency

Capabilities

VisionTools

Pricing Comparison

Compare Gemma 3 4B 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 4B	$0.017	$0.068	11.2	41.7	29.1	96,000	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B	$0.010	$0.020	15.1	50.5	34.4	32,768	Try
LQ Liquid	LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B	$0.010	$0.020	—	—	—	32,768	Try
IB Ibm-granite	Granite 4.0 Micro	$0.017	$0.110	—	—	—	131,000	Try
MI Nousresearch	DeepHermes 3 Mistral 24B Preview	$0.020	$0.100	19.5	58.0	38.2	32,768	Try
O OpenAI	GPT-OSS-20b	$0.020	$0.100	77.7	74.8	68.8	131,072	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

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

Compare Providers

Gemma 3 4B is available from multiple providers with different pricing and availability.

Providers

$0.017

Cheapest Input/M

$0.068

Cheapest Output/M

Chutes

Best Price

Provider Pricing

3 models

Provider	Input $/M	Output $/M	Uptime
C Chutes Best Price	$0.017	$0.068	100.0%
OpenRouter	$0.017	$0.068	-
D DeepInfra	$0.040	$0.080	100.0%

Provider pricing data sourced from OpenRouter and Helicone

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Detailed Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

6.6 (0th pct)

Coding

2.9 (2th pct)

Math

12.7 (12th pct)

MMLU Pro

41.7 (10th pct)

GPQA

29.1 (9th pct)

LiveCodeBench

11.2 (4th pct)

AIME

6.3 (8th pct)

Aider

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