Gemma 3 12B IT
No independent test. This API route aliases gemma-3-12b.
Language model
Gemma 3 12B IT
- Released
- March 12, 2025
- Data date
- September 26, 2026
- Input
- Text, Image
- Output
- Text
Google Gemma 3 12B IT is Google’s instruction-tuned 12B checkpoint with native image input and text output. It handles 131,072 context tokens; its published knowledge cutoff is August 2024.
The -it suffix in the repository name identifies the instruction-tuned variant. Google’s weight page names the exact google/gemma-3-12b-it checkpoint and documents use with Transformers or vLLM.
Specifications and access
Our tests
SVG short test
One SVG prompt and fixed output settings. Captures are shown only with 0 reported reasoning tokens or documented lack of reasoning controls. Identical test conditions do not make the models' internal compute identical.
Earlier tests
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Gemma 3 12B IT
Reasoning (requested): not specified
Current attempt
- Run date
- Oct 2, 2026
- API provider
- openrouter
- Requested API model
- google/gemma-3-12b-it
- API model reported in response
- google/gemma-3-12b-it
- Reasoning setting
- not specified
- Pinned endpoint
- DeepInfra | google/gemma-3-12b-it
- Temperature
- Provider default
- Token limit including reasoning
- 8,192 tokens
- Test protocol
- community-visual-tests-v1
- Technical checks
- Passed, not a quality rating
- Response time
- 34 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Earlier attempts (1)
- Oct 1, 2026Output withheld for safetyReasoning setting: not specified
Prompt and test conditions
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)Popularity
31 / 100
Sources and data date
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Input | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 26, 2026. |
| Output | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 26, 2026. |
| Additional source | Hugging Face · Gemma 3 12B instruction-tuned weights · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |