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Gemma 3 12B IT

Gemma 3 12B IT is an open-weight model from Google, released Mar 13, 2025. It ranks #223 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1334. It costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, with a 128K-token context window.

LMArena text1334+0 in 30 days
Rank#223/351
95% interval1325–1344
Votes3.8K
Developer
Google DeepMind
Released
Mar 13, 2025
Context window
128K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.05 / $0.15
Weights
Open · Gemma
Inputs
Text, Images
Reasoning
No
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
330.4K
Hugging Face likes
883
Gemma 3 12B IT, LMArena text rating over time
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LatestGemma 3 12B IT 1334

The rating LMArena published at each update since May 5, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1334223 / 3513.8K
CodingLMArena1281276 / 346543
MathLMArena1307235 / 339389
Creative writingLMArena1331192 / 349600
Instruction followingLMArena1299238 / 3511.1K
Hard promptsLMArena1309242 / 351977
Multi-turnLMArena1334222 / 349471
Long queriesLMArena1317233 / 330371
ExpertLMArena1248258 / 305186
Legal and governmentIndustries1381179 / 325217
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1334226 / 325155
Business and financeIndustries1376174 / 344364
GermanLanguages1370156 / 261166

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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Google DeepMind

Google’s AI lab, behind Gemini and the open Gemma family, with very long context and native multimodality. Founded 2010 (DeepMind), merged with Google Brain in 2023, based in London. deepmind.google

Questions

Who makes Gemma 3 12B IT?

Gemma 3 12B IT is made by Google DeepMind, founded 2010 (DeepMind), merged with Google Brain in 2023 and based in London.

How much does Gemma 3 12B IT cost?

$0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is Gemma 3 12B IT’s context window?

128K tokens (131,072).

How does Gemma 3 12B IT rank?

#223 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1334 (95% interval 1325–1344) from 3,829 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is Gemma 3 12B IT open source?

Gemma 3 12B IT has open weights under the Gemma license, downloadable from Hugging Face (google/gemma-3-12b-it).

Sources

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