Gemma 3 12B IT: API pricing, providers and specs
Gemma 3 12B IT is a text model by Google. 11 providers serve it, from $0.10 to $0.556 /1M; the lowest price is at Novita AI.
How Gemma 3 12B IT compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.10 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 93% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #71 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 11 providers serve it; 78% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Gemma license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Gemma 3 12B IT prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Nvidia | Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — |
 Novita AI | $0.05/1M | $0.10/1M | — | — |
 Helicone | $0.05/1M | From$0.10/1M | — | — |
 Jiekou.AI | $0.05/1M | $0.10/1M | — | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.05/1M | From$0.15/1M | — | — |
 Deep Infra | $0.05/1M | From$0.15/1M | — | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.05/1M | From$0.15/1M | — | 131K |
| AI/ML API | $0.053/1M | $0.159/1M | $0.042/1M | — |
 AIHubMix | $0.20/1M | From$0.20/1M | — | — |
 Amazon Bedrock | $0.09/1M | From$0.29/1M | — | — |
 Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.345/1M | $0.556/1M | — | — |
- Novita AI$0.10
- Jiekou.AI$0.10
- HeliconeFrom$0.10
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.15
- Deep InfraFrom$0.15
- OpenRouterFrom$0.15
- AI/ML API$0.159
- AIHubMixFrom$0.20
- Amazon BedrockFrom$0.29
- Cloudflare Workers AI$0.556
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 16K
- Capabilities
- JSON, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Mar 1, 2025
- License
- Gemmacommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 12B
- Arena score
- 1334Text
- Monthly searches
- 2K
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The lowest price for Gemma 3 12B IT is $0.10 /1M, at Novita AI.
Novita AI, at $0.10 /1M. 11 providers serve Gemma 3 12B IT; the table above lists every one with its price.
Gemma 3 12B IT reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 16K.
Yes. Gemma 3 12B IT's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Gemma license.
About 12B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
11 API providers serve Gemma 3 12B IT. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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