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Gemma 4 12B It vs Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.
| Gemma 4 12B It | Gemma 4 26B A4B IT | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google DeepMind | Google DeepMind |
| Parameters | 12B | 25.81B |
| Context window | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. | 262k |
| License | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Modalities | text, vision, audio | text, vision |
| Release date | 23 May 2026 | 11 Mar 2026 |
| Languages | Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. | Strong: en, de, fr, es, it, pt Adequate: nl, pl, sv, cs, ro, el, uk, ru, ar, hi, zh, ja, ko, tr |
| Open weights | yes | yes |
| Tasks | Multilingual support, Vision, Summarisation | Reasoning, Coding, Vision, Summarisation, Low cost |
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When to use it
Gemma 4 12B It
Strengths
- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 12B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository
- speech recognition runs locally, so audio never leaves the operator premises
Limits
- catalogue only — LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 12B parameters, self-hosting needs a single accelerator with enough memory for the weights
- vision checkpoints are heavier to serve than their parameter count alone suggests, because the image encoder and pre-processing run alongside the language model
Tasks
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT
Strengths
- mid-size option with the 256K-token window of the larger model
- Apache-2.0 licence
- text and image input
- vendor reports near-flagship scores at a smaller footprint
Limits
- the "A4B" suffix is the vendor’s own designation and is not defined on the model card
- scores are self-reported
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
Tasks
Tasks: Vision, Summarisation