Gemini 3 Flash vs Gemma 3 12B
Google vs Google — benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities side by side.
- •Gemini 3 Flash has the higher intelligence index (90.2 vs 55.5)
- •Gemma 3 12B is cheaper ($0.04 vs $0.50 per 1M input)
- •Gemini 3 Flash is faster
- •Gemini 3 Flash has a larger context window (1M)
| Gemini 3 Flash | Gemma 3 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 90.2 | 55.5 |
| Developer | ||
| Type | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Access | API only | Open weights |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Input price | $0.50 / 1M | $0.04 / 1M |
| Output price | $3.00 / 1M | $0.13 / 1M |
| Speed | 191 tok/s | 33 tok/s |
| Released | December 17, 2025 | March 13, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Input modalities | Text, Image, Audio, Video | Text, Image |
| Output modalities | Text | Text |
Shared benchmarks
Gemini 3 Flash
Gemma 3 12B
GPQA Diamond
90.4
40.9
LiveCodeBench
90.8
24.6
MMLU-Pro
89
60.6