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Gemma 3 12BOPEN
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Benchmarks & performance
Independent benchmark scores for Gemma 3 12B, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
About this model
Gemma 3 12B is an open-weight AI model by Google. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Frequently asked questions
What is Gemma 3 12B?
Gemma 3 12B is an AI language model from Google. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
Is Gemma 3 12B free?
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Gemma 3 12B and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens.
What is Gemma 3 12B good at?
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 34.9%, MMLU-Pro 59.5%, Humanity's Last Exam 4.8%, Long Context Reasoning 6.7%, LiveCodeBench 13.7%, SciCode 17.4%, MATH-500 85.3%, AIME 22%, AIME 2025 18.3%, IFBench 36.7%, τ²-Bench 10.8%, τ-Bench Banking 0.8%, Terminal-Bench 0%, Terminal-Bench Hard 0.8%. It is particularly used for code generation.
Can I self-host Gemma 3 12B?
Yes. Gemma 3 12B has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.