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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 3 4B

We don't benchmark Gemini 2.5 Flash or Gemma 3 4B on Vision Evals. Gemini 2.5 Flash is proprietary under Proprietary: commercial use per vendor terms. Gemma 3 4B is open-weight under Custom. Gemma 3 4B is cheaper per token ($0.05/M vs $0.30/M input). Test them side by side on your own images below.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 3 4B Comparison Table

Pricing updated November 10, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 FlashGemma 3 4B
OrganizationGoogleGoogle
Categoryclosedopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2025Mar 2025
Context Window1.0M128K
ParametersUnknown4B
LicenseProprietaryCustom
Commercial usecommercial use per vendor termsSee license terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.300$0.050
Output $/1M$2.50$0.100
Vision Tasks
ClassificationDemoSupported
Object DetectionDemoNot listed
Both support 8 more tasks
Model Features
Both support 3 more features

Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 3 4B: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s production-ready, efficiency-focused model in the Gemini 2.5 family. It is multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and audio as inputs, with text as the primary output format. The model supports 1 million input tokens and up to 65K output tokens, enabling it to process very large contexts such as books, long video transcripts, or extensive datasets. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.

Designed as a price-performance leader, Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed and reasoning power, making it suitable for everyday enterprise and developer use cases without the higher latency and cost of Pro models. It supports advanced workflows like function calling, code execution, search grounding, URL context ingestion, and structured outputs. While efficient and scalable, output length is still limited compared to its input capacity, and multimodal outputs (e.g. image or audio generation) remain restricted to specialized or preview variants.

Gemma 3 4B

Gemma 3 4B, released on March 12, 2025, is the mid-sized member of Google DeepMind’s open-weight Gemma 3 family. With about 4 billion parameters, it is multimodal—supporting text and image inputs and generating text outputs. Like the larger Gemma 3 models, it features a 128,000-token input context window with an output capacity of ~8,192 tokens, enabling it to handle long documents and mixed text–image reasoning tasks.

The 4B variant is designed as a balance between efficiency and capability: it offers multilingual support across 140+ languages, strong summarization and reasoning performance, and compatibility with moderate hardware. Inference can run with ~6.4 GB VRAM in BF16, or significantly less in quantized 8-bit (~4.4 GB) or 4-bit (~3.4 GB) modes, making it accessible to developers outside large-scale infrastructure. While it lags behind the 12B and 27B versions on the most complex reasoning and multimodal benchmarks, its lower compute footprint makes it ideal for research, prototyping, and practical deployment where efficiency matters.