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.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Gemma-4-26b-A4b-IT google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | Gemma-3-12b-IT google/gemma-3-12b-it | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Family | Gemma | Gemma |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 131,072 tok | 131,072 tok |
| Max output | 4,096 tok | 4,096 tok |
| Released | 2026-04-02 | 2025-03-18 |
| Input price | $0.340 /1M | $0.200 /1M |
| Output price | $0.560 /1M | $0.400 /1M |
| Cache read | — | — |
| Tools | — | — |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | yes | yes |
| JSON mode | — | — |
| Reasoning | — | — |
| Prompt caching | — | — |
Gemma 4 is Google's most intelligent family of open models, built from Gemini 3 research to maximize intelligence-per-parameter.
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.
# 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-4-26b-A4b-IT
client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Gemma-3-12b-IT — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="google/gemma-3-12b-it",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)