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Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean

Added Oct 15, 2026Open weights

Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean is an open-weight merge for storytelling, roleplay, and creative writing. It supports image understanding, tool calling, optional reasoning, and a 131,072-token context window.

Reasoning
Tools
Vision

Input: Text, Images
Output: Text
Reasoning effort: none · high
Discovery tier: Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens

Input: $0.05
Output: $0.25
Cache read: $0.025

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window: 131.1K
Max output: —
Average output (7 days): 233 tokens; Longer than 25% of 473 models

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Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean compared

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Limits
	Gemma 4 12B Starry OceanGoogleThis model	Gemma 4 26B A4B Chimera X HereticGoogleRemove
Provider	Google	Google
Discovery tier	Open weights	Open weights
Added	Oct 15, 2026	Oct 8, 2026
Context window	131.07K	262.14KBest
Max output	—	32.77K
Average output	233 tokens	315 tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input	$0.05Best	$0.12
Output	$0.25Best	$0.38
Cache read	$0.025Best	$0.06
Performance
Throughput	18.1 tok/s	72.7 tok/sBest
Time to first token	1.8 sBest	2.2 s
Request success (24h)	99.3%Best	97.7%
Capabilities
Reasoning	Yes	Yes
Tools	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	Yes
Reasoning effort	none, high	—

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

There are no public benchmark results for these models yet.

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Throughput: 18.1 tok/s; Faster than 9% of 256 models
Time to first token: 1.8 s; Quicker than 78% of 256 models
Prompt cache hits: 69.2%; About $0.0327 per 1M input tokens with caching
Request success (24h): 99.3%; Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 88.8%

Healthy (98% or more)
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Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart

curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gemma-4-12b-it-starry-ocean",
    "reasoning_effort": "none",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gemma-4-12b-it-starry-ocean",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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