Google Gemma 3
Google Gemma 3 is a language model from Google released on Jan 1, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 125K token context window and up to 4K tokens per reply.
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It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens.
It supports tool calling, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $0.15 / $0.30 per 1M
- Context
- 125K
- Max output
- 4K
- Released
- Jan 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Dec 2024
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Google Gemma 3 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $0.15 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $0.30 / 1M tokens |
What Google Gemma 3 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Google Gemma 3 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Temperature
temperature
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Google Gemma 3 questions
How much does the Google Gemma 3 API cost?
$0.15 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Google Gemma 3?
125,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 4,096 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Does Google Gemma 3 support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Google Gemma 3 open source?
Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.
When was Google Gemma 3 released?
Jan 1, 2025, with training data up to Dec 2024.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Google Gemma 3?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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