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Gemma 4 12B vs GPT-6 Luna

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Gemma 4 12B vs GPT-6 Luna Comparison Table

Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 13, 2026

PropertyGemma 4 12BGPT-6 Luna
OrganizationGoogleOpenAI
Categoryopenclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJun 2026Sep 2026
Context Window—1.1M
Parameters12BUnknown
LicenseApache 2.0Proprietary
Commercial usefree for commercial usecommercial use per vendor terms
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1MNo published price$0.100
Output $/1MNo published price$0.500
Vision Tasks
CaptioningSupportedDemo
OCRSupportedDemo
Vision LanguageSupportedSupported
Visual Question AnsweringSupportedDemo
Chart Question AnsweringNot listedSupported
ClassificationNot listedDemo
Document Question AnsweringNot listedSupported
Image TaggingNot listedSupported
Multi-Label ClassificationNot listedSupported
Object DetectionNot listedDemo
Promptable Concept SegmentationNot listedDemo
Model Features
Multimodal VisionSupportedSupported
Foundation VisionNot listedSupported
LLMs with Vision CapabilitiesNot listedSupported
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
69.7%
Avg cost / sample–$0.0004
Avg speed / sample–10.21s
By task
Object Detection (low)–
65.5%
±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.2 to 66.0
$0.0006
Object Detection (high)–
68.0%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 67.3 to 68.6
$0.0014
Counting (low)–
71.6%
±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 71.6
$0.0002
Counting (high)–
72.1%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 73.0
$0.0004
Identification (low)–
87.5%
±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6
$0.0002
Identification (high)–
87.5%
±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6
$0.0002
OCR (low)–
59.8%
$0.0004
by category
Single value
41.7%
Transcription
80.0%
Structured JSON
78.2%
Text localization
47.4%
OCR (high)–
62.5%
$0.0013
by category
Single value
44.4%
Transcription
84.0%
Structured JSON
81.0%
Text localization
50.0%
Reasoning (low)–
64.2%
±3.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.3 to 66.2
$0.0003
Reasoning (high)–
71.1%
±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 68.2 to 72.8
$0.0004

Gemma 4 12B vs GPT-6 Luna: Overview

Gemma 4 12B

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.

GPT-6 Luna

GPT-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 model family, sitting below GPT-6 Sol and the larger GPT-6 Astra model that opened the generation. It is a proprietary multimodal transformer that accepts text and image input and returns text, and it exposes an adjustable reasoning effort setting so the same model can run in a low-latency mode or spend additional inference compute on harder problems. OpenAI positions it for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as conversational assistants, classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines, while noting that at higher reasoning effort it handles software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously required a Sol-tier model.

The model supports a context window of roughly 1,050,000 input tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, which allows long documents, extended agent traces, and large code repositories to be processed in a single request. OpenAI describes the GPT-6 generation as improving factual reliability and adopting a more concise communication style relative to the GPT-5.6 series, and attributes the efficiency of the Sol and Luna tiers to gains in caching and inference rather than to reduced capability. Architecture details, parameter counts, and training data are not published.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gemma 4 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 4 12B is released under Apache 2.0, while GPT-6 Luna uses Proprietary. In practice: Gemma 4 12B — free for commercial use; GPT-6 Luna — commercial use per vendor terms. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.