Gemma 3 12B
Google's 12B multimodal: text+vision, 128K, 415k downloads.
About
Gemma-3-12B-IT is Google's 12B multimodal model (March 2025): 12.2B parameters handling text and images, 128K-token context, 140+ languages — with 415k Hugging Face downloads. It sits in the sweet spot between the 4B (edge) and 27B (server) Gemma 3 sizes, with strong 12B-class quality on vision and language tasks. Weights are gated (manual approval) under the Gemma Terms of Use — custom, non-OSI: "open weights", never "open source".
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported (Google, Mar 2025): strong 12B multimodal on MMMU, DocVQA; competitive with larger models — provider-reported.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: HF downloads 415,309 (peer-normalized); released 591 days ago. Manual review: Google's 12B multimodal (128K, 415k dl); crowded 12B slot. License: Gemma Terms of Use — custom, non-OSI; describe as 'open weights', never 'open source'.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.3/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 5.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 5.8/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · HF downloads 415,309 (peer-normalized)
- · released 591 days ago
- · manual review: Google's 12B multimodal (128K, 415k dl); crowded 12B slot