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# Google: Gemma 3 12B — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Google: Gemma 3 12B: $0.050/M in, $0.150/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Gemma 3 12B

Google · released 2025-03-13

 $0.075 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Solar Pro 4 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+36.1** on the capability index and **30% cheaper** ($0.052/M against $0.075/M). What you lose:

 - no image input

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.050 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.150 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 5.5 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 5.8 |
| Agentic | 0.3 |
| LMArena Elo | 1334.2 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 131K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-08-31 |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |

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,...