Gemma 3 12B IT

by Google

Gemma 3 12B IT is Google's 12-billion parameter, instruction-tuned variant of the Gemma 3 family, accepting both text and image inputs and generating text output. Trained on roughly 12 trillion tokens, it is built for reasoning, summarization, question answering, and visual understanding, with a custom vision encoder enabling image interpretation. With a 128K token context window and multilingual coverage across more than 140 languages, Gemma 3 12B IT delivers strong results on multilingual and reasoning tasks while remaining efficient enough to run on a single accelerator. It is released under the Gemma license, which permits commercial use.

Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
131K
Max output
131K
Input price
$0.05 /1M
Output price
$0.15 /1M
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • No training by default
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

Gemma 3 12B IT runs on 1 route through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, ZDR, and training posture at a glance — full data-handling detail per route below.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutput
USZero data retentionNo$0.05$0.15

Uptime and availability

Gemma 3 12B IT runs on a single route through the Opper gateway today, so its availability is that provider's availability.

100%route uptime, last 30 days
Single route, no failover target within this model.

Name a second model in the same request and the gateway tries it on retriable errors, so a busy hour never has to reach your users. Set up a fallback chain.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting Gemma 3 12B IT has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

DeepInfra United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention is on by default on Pay-as-you-go — no action required. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention
On by default on Pay-as-you-go.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Third-party access
None disclosed
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

Get started

Call Gemma 3 12B IT through the Opper gateway with one API key. Let your coding agent set it up, or call it directly — Opper is drop-in compatible with the OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs.

Set it up with your agent

Copy this and paste it into a coding agent like Claude Code, Cursor or Codex and it'll wire up Opper for you.

Or call it directly

import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "deepinfra/google/gemma-3-12b-it",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);

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