Google · Open weights
Gemma 3 12B IT
Gemma 3 has a large, 128K context window, multilingual support in over 140 languages, and is available in more sizes than previous versions.
- PDF input
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.27
- Output
- $0.27
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- 16.4K
- Average output (7 days)
- 168 tokens
- Longer than 16% of 468 models
Side by side
Gemma 3 12B IT compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Gemma 3 12B ITGoogleThis model | Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Jan 1, 2024 | Apr 2, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 262.14KBest |
| Max output | 16.38K | 131.07KBest |
| Average output | 168 tokens | 131 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.27 | $0.09Best |
| Output | $0.27Best | $0.30 |
| Cache read | — | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 62.5 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 2.2 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 3.8 | 16.7Best |
| Coding Index | 5.8 | 39.3Best |
| Math Index | 18.3 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | No | Yes |
| Tools | No | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Gemma 3 12B IT
- Gemma 4 26B A4B
Intelligence Index
- Gemma 3 12B IT3.8
- Gemma 4 26B A4B16.7
Gemma 3 12B IT: Better than 0% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 5.8
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 39.3Top
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 18.3
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 0.2%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 1.9%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 0.0%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 0.2%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Gemma 3 12B IT: —
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 315 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Gemma 3 12B IT: —
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 565 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 1.0%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 8.3%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 65.7%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 4.2%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 19.3%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 34.9%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 79.2%Top
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 59.5%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 36.7%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 72.4%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 0.0%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 16.4%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 40.0%Top
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 13.7%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 18.3%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 22.0%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 85.3%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: —
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 0.8%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 13.6%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 10.8%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 43.6%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Gemma 3 12B IT: 8.3%
- Gemma 4 26B A4B: 65.7%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- Gemma 3 12B IT
- Gemma 4 26B A4B
| Leaderboard | Gemma 3 12B IT | Gemma 4 26B A4B |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1238.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
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.
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "unsloth/gemma-3-12b-it",
"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="unsloth/gemma-3-12b-it",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Related models
Other Google models, starting with the same family.