Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemma 3 12B supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Google DeepMind
Gemma 3 12B is a 12-billion-parameter open-weight model from Google DeepMind, released in March 2025 as part of the Gemma 3 series designed to bring multimodal reasoning to accessible hardware. The model supports both text and image inputs across a 128K token context window, extending the vision capabilities that defined the Gemma 3 generation compared to earlier text-only Gemma releases. It became widely adopted for domain-specific fine-tuning in research and enterprise settings where full multimodal capability was needed without the infrastructure demands of larger frontier models.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS-20B is an open-weight large language model with 20 billion parameters from OpenAI's open-source model initiative. It targets deployments requiring a smaller, efficient model that can run on consumer or mid-tier hardware while maintaining strong reasoning and coding capabilities relative to its size.
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Gemma 3 12B
Google DeepMind
2025-03-12

GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
2025-08-05
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemma 3 12B
GPT-OSS-20B
Hugging Face
Gemma 3 12B
GPT-OSS-20B
Gemma 3 12B
GPT-OSS-20B