Google: Gemma 3 12B
google/gemma-3-12b-it
Access Gemma 3 12B from Google using Puter.js AI API.
Get Started// npm install @heyputer/puter.js
import { puter } from '@heyputer/puter.js';
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "google/gemma-3-12b-it"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
<html>
<body>
<script src="https://js.puter.com/v2/"></script>
<script>
puter.ai.chat("Explain quantum computing in simple terms", {
model: "google/gemma-3-12b-it"
}).then(response => {
document.body.innerHTML = response.message.content;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/",
api_key="YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN",
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemma-3-12b-it",
messages=[
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
curl https://api.puter.com/puterai/openai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PUTER_AUTH_TOKEN" \
-d '{
"model": "google/gemma-3-12b-it",
"messages": [
{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"}
]
}'
Model Card
Gemma 3 12B Instruct is Google's mid-sized open multimodal model supporting text and image input with a 128K token context window. It supports 140+ languages and offers strong performance for single-GPU deployment.
Context Window 131K
tokens
Max Output 131K
tokens
Input Cost $0.05
per million tokens
Output Cost $0.15
per million tokens
Release Date Mar 13, 2025
Model Playground
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Benchmarks
How Gemma 3 12B performs on standard evaluations.
| Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science Q&A | 34.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam Cross-domain reasoning | 4.2% |
| LiveCodeBench Recent coding problems | 13.7% |
| SciCode Scientific programming | 17.4% |
| MATH-500 Competition math | 85.3% |
| AIME 2024 Advanced math exam | 22.0% |
| AIME 2025 Advanced math exam | 18.3% |
| IFBench Instruction following | 36.7% |
| LCR Long-context reasoning | 8.0% |
| Terminal-Bench Hard Agentic terminal tasks | 0.8% |
| τ²-Bench Tool use / agents | 10.8% |
Scores sourced from Artificial Analysis.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can access Gemma 3 12B by Google through Puter.js AI API. Include the library in your web app or Node.js project and start making calls with just a few lines of JavaScript — no backend and no configuration required. You can also use it with Python or cURL via Puter's OpenAI-compatible API.
Yes, it is free if you're using it through Puter.js. With the User-Pays Model, you can add Gemma 3 12B to your app at no cost — your users pay for their own AI usage directly, making it completely free for you as a developer.
| Price per 1M tokens | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.05 |
| Output | $0.15 |
Gemma 3 12B was created by Google and released on Mar 13, 2025.
Gemma 3 12B supports a context window of 131K tokens. For reference, that is roughly equivalent to 262 pages of text.
Gemma 3 12B can generate up to 131K tokens in a single response.
Gemma 3 12B scores 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming 16% of tracked models. On coding, it scores 5.8 (outperforms 4% of models). On math, it scores 18.3 (outperforms 20% of models).
Yes — the Gemma 3 12B API works with any JavaScript framework, Node.js, or plain HTML through Puter.js. Just include the library and start building. See the documentation for more details.
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