Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)

google/gemma-3-12b-it:free

Created Mar 13, 202532,768 context

$0/M input tokens$0/M output tokens

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, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 12B is the second largest in the family of Gemma 3 models after Gemma 3 27B

Google: Gemma 3 12B (free)

google/gemma-3-12b-it:free

Created Mar 13, 202532,768 context

$0/M input tokens$0/M output tokens

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, including structured outputs and function calling. Gemma 3 12B is the second largest in the family of Gemma 3 models after Gemma 3 27B

Sample code and API for Gemma 3 12B (free)

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