Gemma 3 4B IT: API pricing, providers and specs
Gemma 3 4B IT is a text model by Google. 6 providers serve it, from $0.05 to $0.20 /1M; the lowest price is at OpenRouter.
How Gemma 3 4B IT compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.05 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 98% 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 #85 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 6 providers serve it; 69% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Gemma license: commercial use under the maker's terms.
Gemma 3 4B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free/1M | Free/1M | — | — | |
| OpenRouter | $0.04/1M | From$0.05/1M | $0.02/1M | 131K |
| $0.05/1M | From$0.10/1M | — | — | |
| $0.05/1M | From$0.10/1M | — | — | |
| AI/ML API | $0.053/1M | $0.106/1M | $0.042/1M | — |
| $0.20/1M | $0.20/1M | — | — |
- OpenRouterFrom$0.05
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.10
- Deep InfraFrom$0.10
- AI/ML API$0.106
- AIHubMix$0.20
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Inputs
- Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 118K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Vision
- Released
- Feb 20, 2025
- License
- Gemmacommercial use under the maker's terms
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 4.3B
- Arena score
- 1291Text
- Monthly searches
- 4K
Alternatives to Gemma 3 4B IT
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.05/1M | 131K | 1291 | 6 | |
| $0.03/1M | 1.05M | 1664 | 39 | |
| GPT OSS 120B | $0.14/1M | 131K | 1366 | 32 |
| $0.10/1M | 1.05M | 1634 | 22 | |
| $0.13/1M | 262K | — | 12 | |
| GPT OSS 20B | $0.09/1M | 131K | 1287 | 26 |
| Mercury 2.5 | $0.15/1M | 260K | — | 5 |
| $0.06/1M | — | — | 3 | |
| $0.127/1M | 524K | — | 3 |
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Gemma 3 4B IT FAQ
The lowest price for Gemma 3 4B IT is $0.05 /1M, at OpenRouter.
OpenRouter, at $0.05 /1M. 6 providers serve Gemma 3 4B IT; the table above lists every one with its price.
Gemma 3 4B IT reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 118K.
Yes. Gemma 3 4B IT's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Gemma license.
About 4.3B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
6 API providers serve Gemma 3 4B IT. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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