Gemma 3 4B

Google chatvisiontool_use

API ID: google/gemma-3-4b-it

Input Price
$0.02
/1M tokens
Output Price
$0.07
/1M tokens

About Gemma 3 4B

Gemma 3 is Google's latest open-weight model family, delivering significant improvements over Gemma 2 in capability and efficiency. The models feature enhanced reasoning, coding, and multilingual performance while maintaining practical deployment requirements. Gemma 3 excels at general language tasks and demonstrates strong performance on benchmarks for its size class. The open weights enable self-hosting, fine-tuning, and customization without API dependencies. For developers seeking capable open-source AI with Google's latest improvements, Gemma 3 offers excellent value. It's particularly popular for local deployment and applications requiring deployment flexibility.

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Price Ranking
#574 lowest price among 950 Chat models

Model Specifications

Context Length
131k
Max Output
โ€”
Release Date
2025-03-13
Capabilities
chat vision tool_use
Input Modalities
textimage
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Image analysis, document understanding, visual Q&A
  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

๐Ÿ’ฐ Real-World Cost Examples

Estimated monthly costs for common use cases

Personal AI Assistant
$0.03
/month
50 conversations/day, ~500 tokens each
Customer Service Bot
$0.87
/month
1000 tickets/day, ~800 tokens each

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๐Ÿš€ Quick Start

Get started with Gemma 3 4B API

Google AI Python SDK
import google.generativeai as genai

genai.configure(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
model = genai.GenerativeModel("gemma-3-4b-it")

response = model.generate_content("Hello!")
print(response.text)