Gemma 4 12B: benchmarks, price and rank
Gemma 4 12B from Google is 118th of 123 rated AI models on Spezia's leaderboard.
- 118th of 123 rated models
- Rating 372
- Rated on 5 benchmarks
- Open weights
- Released May 23, 2026
- Knows the world to January 2025
Where it is strongest
Not in the top tenth on any benchmark in use.
Where it falls behind
- 72nd of 74 on Humanity's Last Exam
- 48th of 56 on MMLU-Pro
- 39th of 51 on MMMU-Pro
Its headline results
The benchmarks that count most in the rating, with its place among the models measured the same way, and where each number came from.
- Humanity's Last Exam5.2%
About 2,500 questions written by experts in more than a hundred fields to be as hard as they could make them, many needing a diagram or image.
72nd of 74. The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
- LiveCodeBench v672%
Programming contest problems collected after models were trained, from LeetCode, AtCoder and Codeforces.
26th of 43. The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
- MMMU-Pro69.1%
College exam questions that need a picture to answer, such as charts, diagrams, maps and chemical structures, with more answer options than the original MMMU and some questions shown only as a screenshot.
39th of 51. The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
- MRCR v2 (8 needles)43.4%
A very long conversation full of similar requests, where the model has to find and repeat particular earlier answers, eight of them at once.
13th of 24. The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
- GPQA Diamond78.8%
Graduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry, written by PhDs so that searching the web does not give the answer away.
The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
- MMLU-Pro77.2%
Twelve thousand multiple-choice questions across fourteen subjects, from law and medicine to engineering, with ten options each.
48th of 56. The maker's own number, from Google, via LLM Stats.
1 more results in its full profile.
Every result with its source, what it costs per task, what jumped with its release, side by side with any other model, and answers to your questions about when to use it.
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How the rating works, and every benchmark it uses: the model leaderboard.