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Gemma 3 12B Pricing
Google · google-gemma-3-12b-it
Input / 1M tokens
$0.050
Output / 1M tokens
$0.150
Context window
131,072 tokens
≈ 175 pages of text
Max output
16,384 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0001
1,000 requests / month$0.12/mo10,000 requests / month$1.20/mo100,000 requests / month$12.00/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Gemma 3 12B preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
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What it excels at
Handles text and vision inputs effectively within a 128k context window at low per-token pricing. Supports up to 16k output tokens for document and image analysis workloads.
The business tradeoff
12B scale limits depth on complex reasoning chains relative to larger models. Output tokens are priced three times higher than input.
Cheaper from Google
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.