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Gemma-3-12b-IT vs Gemma-7b-IT

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Gemma-3-12b-IT
google/gemma-3-12b-it
Gemma-7b-IT
hf/google/gemma-7b-it
ProviderGoogleHugging Face
FamilyGemmaGemma
Modalitytexttext
Context window80,000 tok8,192 tok
Max output4,096 tok4,096 tok
Released2025-03-182024-04-01
Input price$0.350 /1M$0.080 /1M
Output price$0.560 /1M$0.160 /1M
Cache read——
Tools——
Streamingyesyes
Visionyes—
JSON mode——
Reasoning——
Prompt caching——
Gemma-3-12b-IT
google/gemma-3-12b-it
Full spec →

Gemma 3 models are well-suited for a variety of text generation and image understanding tasks, including question answering, summarization, and reasoning. Gemma 3 models are multimodal, handling text and image input and generating text output, with a large, 128K context window, multilingual support in over 140 languages, and is available in more sizes than previous versions.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Open-weight
Gemma-7b-IT
hf/google/gemma-7b-it
Full spec →

Gemma is a family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models from Google, built from the same research and technology used to create the Gemini models. They are text-to-text, decoder-only large language models, available in English, with open weights, pre-trained variants, and instruction-tuned variants.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Open-weight
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Gemma-3-12b-IT
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="google/gemma-3-12b-it",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Gemma-7b-IT — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="hf/google/gemma-7b-it",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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