Gemma 3 12B
· verified October 3, 2026
legacy paid api open-weights vision local
Provider
Statuslegacy
AA Intelligence Index3.8 (official, read October 3, 2026)
Released2025-03-13
Context window131K
ModalitiesText + image
API price $/1M (in / out)$0.05 / $0.15 (OpenRouter)
Speedn/a
AccessAPI $0.05/$0.15 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed March 13, 2025
In one line
Gemma 3 12B by Google, measured by Artificial Analysis at 3.8 on the Intelligence Index, 5.8 on coding and 0.1 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs.”
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