Google: Gemma 3 12B API Pricing
Google: Gemma 3 12B costs $0.050 per 1M input tokens and $0.150 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 131K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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What would Google: Gemma 3 12B cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $1.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $3.50 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $8.25 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $2.30 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Google: Gemma 3 12B
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,...
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Google: Gemma 3 12B cost?
Google: Gemma 3 12B costs $0.050 per 1M input tokens and $0.150 per 1M output tokens. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
131K tokens, with up to 16K output tokens per response. That's roughly 164 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Prompt-caching pricing is not published for this model via OpenRouter.
What's a cheaper alternative?
Mistral: Mistral Nemo saves about 63% on a typical workload with comparable quality.
Official resources
- Google: Gemma 3 12B on OpenRouter — live endpoint, pricing source of record.
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