
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.
- 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
The rating LMArena published at each update since May 5, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1334 | 223 / 351 | 3.8K |
| CodingLMArena | 1281 | 276 / 346 | 543 |
| MathLMArena | 1307 | 235 / 339 | 389 |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1331 | 192 / 349 | 600 |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1299 | 238 / 351 | 1.1K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1309 | 242 / 351 | 977 |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1334 | 222 / 349 | 471 |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1317 | 233 / 330 | 371 |
| ExpertLMArena | 1248 | 258 / 305 | 186 |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1381 | 179 / 325 | 217 |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1334 | 226 / 325 | 155 |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1376 | 174 / 344 | 364 |
| GermanLanguages | 1370 | 156 / 261 | 166 |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
Compare Gemma 3 12B IT
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).
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5.5
Muse Wonder
MiMo-V2.6-Pro
Qwen3.8-Max
Kimi K3
GLM-5.3
GPT-5.5
ERNIE 5.1
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910
Grok 4.20 Beta
amazon-nova-experimental-chat
Dola Seed 2.0 Pro
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B
Step 5 Preview