Gemma 4 12B review, price and benchmarks (2026)

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Provider

Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Index21.8 (July 16, 2026 snapshot)

Releasedn/a

Context windown/a

Modalitiesn/a

API price $/1M (in / out)n/a

Speedn/a

AccessOpen weights · laptop-friendly

In one line

The mid-size Gemma - a favorite for private, offline use on ordinary hardware.

Coding42

Reasoning40

Writing44

Agents & tools34

Category scores (0-100) are WhichAI blended ratings: public category leaderboards plus editorial judgment. Guidance, not official measurements.

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2026 rebased scale (top models ≈ 55–60). Snapshot: July 24, 2026 (BenchLM mirror), retrieved July 26, 2026. Context, price and release data come from vendor pages and public pricing mirrors (retrieved July 19, 2026). Missing values are not published or not yet verified - shown as -. Sources are linked inside the app (Model guide and About > Methodology).