Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.

Gemma 3 12B
Google DeepMind
2025-03-12
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Gemma 3 12B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI
Gemma 3 12B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Gemma 3 12B
Llama 4 Behemoth