Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 4 12B
We don't benchmark Gemini 2.5 Flash or Gemma 4 12B on Vision Evals. Gemini 2.5 Flash is proprietary under Proprietary: commercial use per vendor terms. Gemma 4 12B is open-weight under Apache 2.0: free for commercial use.
Compare Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 4 12B live
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These models don't share enough common tasks for a side-by-side demo. See the comparison table below for their capabilities.
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 4 12B Comparison Table
Pricing updated November 4, 2026
| Property | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Gemma 4 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | ||
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Jul 2025 | Jun 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | — |
| Parameters | Unknown | 12B |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | free for commercial use |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.300 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Classification | Demo | Not listed |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Not listed |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Not listed |
| Object Detection | Demo | Not listed |
Both support 1 more task | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | Supported | Not listed |
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | Supported | Not listed |
Both support 1 more feature | ||
Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Gemma 4 12B: Overview
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 4 12B is an open-weight multimodal model from Google in the Gemma 4 family. It is intended for text and image understanding tasks such as visual question answering, OCR, captioning, and document understanding, with a smaller parameter footprint than the larger Gemma 4 variants.
This entry is connected to Roboflow Playground vision evals for comparison. No runnable Playground workflow is configured yet, so the model page is used for discovery and benchmark context rather than direct hosted inference.