How much does Gemma 3 12B cost per million tokens?

Gemma 3 12B costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Gemma 3 12B?

Gemma 3 12B accepts up to 131,072 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Gemma 3 12B?

About $0.13, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Gemma 3 12B?

In the same price range, Qwen Qwen3.7 Flash ($0.03 / $0.13), DeepSeek DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 ($0.042 / $0.084), OpenAI gpt-oss-120b ($0.037 / $0.17) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Google API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Google sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Google · live price

Gemma 3 12B API pricing

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,...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingimage input

Input: $0.05; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.15; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 131K; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Google's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released March 13, 2025. Model id google/gemma-3-12b-it.

What Gemma 3 12B costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.13

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$0.47

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.18

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Gemma 3 12B price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Gemma 3 12B price by host

One host serves this model through OpenRouter.

DeepInfra$0.05 in · $0.15 out · 131K ctx · 100.0% uptime 24h

Where to buy Google credits for less

Gemma 3 12B costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Gemma 3 12B cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.05 in / $0.15 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$4.00/ month(quotes below are for $5.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Gemma 3 12B

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash	$0.03	$0.13	$0.055	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423	$0.042	$0.084	$0.052	1.0M
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b	$0.037	$0.17	$0.07	131K
OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b	$0.018	$0.09	$0.036	131K
Mistral: Mistral Small 3	$0.05	$0.08	$0.057	33K
Meta: Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.201	$0.071	60K

Other Google models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Gemma 3 4B	$0.05	$0.1	$0.063	131K
Gemma 3 27B	$0.08	$0.45	$0.172	131K
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05	$1.25	$10	$3.44	1.0M
Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image)	$0.3	$2.50	$0.85	33K
Gemma 2 27B	$0.65	$0.65	$0.65	8K
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview)	$2	$12	$4.50	66K

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