Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Gemma 4 12B
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: 87.3% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#3 of 69 models). We have not run Gemma 4 12B through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.
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Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Gemma 4 12B Comparison Table
Evals updated November 12, 2026
| Property | Gemini 4 Hydrogen | Gemma 4 12B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | ||
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Nov 2026 | 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 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| classification | Demo | Not listed |
| object-detection | Demo | Not listed |
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | 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 | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | 87.3% | Not evaluated |
| Avg cost / sample | $0.0094 | – |
| Avg speed / sample | 13.23s | – |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | 81.0% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.3 to 81.9 | – |
| Object Detection (high) | 83.3% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 83.8 | – |
| Counting (low) | 83.8% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 86.5 | – |
| Counting (high) | 84.2% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 87.8 | – |
| Identification (low) | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 | – |
| Identification (high) | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 | – |
| OCR (low) | 86.7% | – |
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| OCR (high) | 87.2% | – |
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| Reasoning (low) | 88.1% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.4 to 88.7 | – |
| Reasoning (high) | 91.8% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.4 to 92.0 | – |
Gemini 4 Hydrogen vs Gemma 4 12B: Overview
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a multimodal model from Google, positioned as a successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash with stronger agent and coding capabilities at Flash-class speed.
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.