The cheapos ClubGoogle: Gemma 3 12B
google/gemma-3-12b-it
Price Published
- Input
- $0.05 per million tokens
- Output
- $0.15 per million tokens
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Specifications Published
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Tool calling
- Supported
- Vision input
- Supported
- Reasoning
- Not listed
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 31, 2024
- Listed since
- Mar 13, 2025
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Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter
- Intelligence index
- 3.8
- Coding index
- 5.8
- Agentic index
- 0.1
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About this model OpenRouter description
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities,...
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