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Gemma 3 4B: price, performance and context

Open Gemma 3 4B by Google costs $0.05 per 1M input and $0.10 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 4.8 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 210 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:37 UTC · google/gemma-3-4b-it

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.05
Output / 1M tokens
$0.10
Context window
131.1K tokens
Max. output
16.4K tokens
Performance index
4.8 points · rank 210 of 212
Coding index
2.7 points · rank 119 of 119
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.075 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 2024
In the catalog since
Mar 13, 2025
Capabilities
Vision

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00154,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00190,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0047,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0027,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.0051,900

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