Gemma 3 12B vs Grok 4.7
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Gemma 3 12B vs Grok 4.7 Comparison Table
Evals updated September 22, 2026Pricing updated September 22, 2026
| Property | Gemma 3 12B | Grok 4.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | SpaceXAI | |
| Category | open | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | — |
| Release Date | Mar 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 128K | 500K |
| Parameters | 12B | |
| License | Custom | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.050 | $1.60 |
| Output $/1M | $0.150 | $4.80 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | ||
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Object Detection | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 71.9% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.012 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 23.55s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 40.4% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.8 to 41.0 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 41.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 39.6 to 42.8 |
| Counting (low) | – | 61.7% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.8 to 63.5 |
| Counting (high) | – | 60.8% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 59.5 to 62.2 |
| Identification (low) | – | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 80.2% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 81.3 |
| OCR (low) | – | 92.6% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.1 to 93.4 |
| OCR (high) | – | 93.5% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 93.1 to 93.8 |
| Data Extraction (low) | – | 84.9% ±2.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.5 to 87.6 |
| Data Extraction (high) | – | 87.6% ±1.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.6 to 89.7 |
| Reasoning (low) | – | 64.2% ±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.3 to 66.9 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 66.9% ±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.6 to 68.2 |
Gemma 3 12B vs Grok 4.7: Overview
Gemma 3 12B, announced by Google DeepMind on March 12, 2025, is part of the open-weight Gemma 3 family, designed to provide a balance between capability and accessibility. With around 12 billion parameters, it supports multimodal input (text + images) and outputs text, making it useful for reasoning, summarization, Q&A, and visual understanding tasks. The model supports an input context of 128,000 tokens and typically generates up to ~8,000 tokens in output.
The 12B variant is instruction-tuned (“Gemma-3-12B-IT”) and optimized for multilingual use across more than 140 languages. It can run on a single GPU or TPU, offering a lighter compute footprint than very large proprietary models, while still achieving strong performance in reasoning benchmarks. Quantized and lower-precision variants are available to improve efficiency. Limitations include smaller output lengths relative to input capacity, scaling hardware needs at larger sizes, and performance below massive proprietary models on the most complex multimodal or reasoning-heavy tasks.
Grok 4.7 is a proprietary model from SpaceXAI, released on September 21, 2026. It accepts text and images as input and returns text. It extends Grok 4.6 and is listed at the same API price.
Its Vision Evals scores are on the leaderboard. Running it in the Playground is not available yet, because the inference workflow is not ready.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gemma 3 12B has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.
Gemma 3 12B is released under Custom, while Grok 4.7 uses Proprietary. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.