When was Gemma 3 12B IT released?

Google released Gemma 3 12B IT on 12 Mar 2025. It is available through the Opper gateway.

Does Gemma 3 12B IT support zero data retention?

Yes. Gemma 3 12B IT is available with zero data retention on DeepInfra, Nextbit through the Opper gateway.

Where is Gemma 3 12B IT hosted?

Gemma 3 12B IT runs on both EU and US hosting routes through the Opper gateway. Pick the route that matches your residency requirement.

Is Gemma 3 12B IT trained on prompts and outputs?

No. Every hosting route for Gemma 3 12B IT is configured so customer prompts and outputs are not used to train models by default.

Is a GDPR DPA available for Gemma 3 12B IT?

Yes. A GDPR Data Processing Agreement is available on at least one route serving Gemma 3 12B IT. Contact hello@opper.ai to receive it.

Gemma 3 12B IT

by Google

Announcement · All Google releases

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.

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Key info

Input

Output

Features

Context window

131K

Max output

131K

Input price

$0.05 /1M

Output price

$0.15 /1M

Released

12 Mar 2025

Web search

Via Opper

EU residency available
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 2 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. In the EU it is served by Nextbit (Spain). See every model hosted in the EU. One route also sells flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.

Provider	Region	Zero data retention	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
DeepInfra	US		No	$0.05	$0.15	Input price
Nextbit	EU		No	$0.05	$0.15	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=deepinfra%2Fgoogle%2Fgemma-3-12b-it

Uptime and availability

One of Gemma 3 12B IT's 2 routes is on the monitoring board, so the figure below is that provider's availability rather than the model's.

99.86%route uptime, last 30 days

Its other routes aren't measured here yet.

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. 1 further route is not on the board yet. 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: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: No classifier
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: SCCs

Nextbit — Spain🇪🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention: Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training: No training on customer data.
Logging: None
Abuse monitoring: Keeps nothing
Caching: Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access: Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA: DPA available
Transfer mechanism: Not applicable — data stays in EU

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1import OpenAI from "openai";
2
3const client = new OpenAI({
4  apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,
5  baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
6});
7
8const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
9  model: "deepinfra/google/gemma-3-12b-it",
10  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
11});
12console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);