{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "gemma-4-12b-it", "name": "Gemma 4 12B IT", "vendor": "Google DeepMind", "vendorUrl": "https://gemma.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Gemma 4 12B IT is Google DeepMind's open-weight instruction-tuned dense model, 11.95B parameters in an encoder-free design, taking text, images, video frames and audio with a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "gemma4:12b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. 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Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.", "bestFor": "Agents on a 12 GB or larger GPU or Mac that want a permissively licensed tool-calling model with images, audio and long context", "strengths": [ "Plain Apache 2.0, no account or gate, safetensors and GGUF only with a checksum on every file", "Google's own 4-bit QAT GGUF needs about 8.6 GB with working space", "Released support in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio and Transformers", "Tool declaration and call format documented by Google, with parallel calls and a shipped response parser", "262,144 tokens of native context and thinking that turns on or off per request", "Takes audio as well as images and video frames" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety evaluation figures published", "No documented way to ask for JSON or schema output", "No hosted version, since the Gemini API serves only the two largest sizes", "Training data described only by type and cut-off", "Files unchanged since 20 July 2026, and a startup crash report waits without a reply", "A newer, separate architecture (gemma4_unified) that needs Transformers 5.10.0 or later" ], "agentNotes": [ "On the reference machine run `llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072`, and add `--mmproj` with mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf for images and audio", "With Ollama run `ollama run gemma4:12b` and raise num_ctx or OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH, since the default context is small and agents want at least 64K", "In vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser gemma4 --reasoning-parser gemma4` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`), or tool calls come back as text; Google's w4a16 build is the 4-bit route there", "Thinking is off by default; pass enable_thinking=True or start the system prompt with \u003c|think|\u003e, and drop earlier turns' thinking from history except on tool-call turns", "Put images before the text and audio after it, keep audio to 30 seconds and video to 60 frames, and validate tool names and arguments before running them", "Transformers needs 5.10.0 or later for gemma4_unified, and mlx-lm has no gemma4_unified code, so on a Mac use mlx-vlm, LM Studio or Ollama" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 50, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run gemma4:12b\n# or, with llama.cpp and Google's QAT build:\nllama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"gemma4:12b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}], \"options\": {\"num_ctx\": 65536}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemma-4-12b-it" }, "sameCompany": [ "embeddinggemma-300m", "diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-31b-it", "gemma-4-e2b-it", "gemma-4-e4b-it" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Google DeepMind", "builtOn": "google/gemma-4-12B", "params": "11.95B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Mid-size dense assistant and agent model for a laptop GPU, with tool calling and optional thinking, taking text, images, video frames and audio without separate encoders, and a 256K context.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf/blob/main/gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 7.15, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)", "LM Studio" ], "note": "Quantisation-aware trained by Google. Size is the repository's two files summed, the 6.98 GB model and the 0.18 GB projector (mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf) for image and audio input" }, { "name": "ollama gemma4:12b", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/gemma4:12b", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 8, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M weights (7.4 GB) with a BF16 projector (175 MB) and a Q8_0 draft model (465 MB) (digest 6114515d63c1), the llama.cpp variant. gemma4:12b-it-qat (7.2 GB) is Ollama's copy of Google's Q4_0 QAT build" }, { "name": "lmstudio google/gemma-4-12b", "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/models/google/gemma-4-12b", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 7.4, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio" ], "note": "LM Studio's catalogue build, from lmstudio-community/gemma-4-12B-it-GGUF, with MLX builds at 4 to 8 bits beside it. Size as the catalogue shows it, and Q4_K_M is inferred from that repository's files rather than stated by LM Studio" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct", "who": "publisher", "precision": "w4a16", "sizeGB": 10.3, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Quantisation-aware trained, 4-bit weights with 16-bit activations in compressed-tensors format, which Google routes to vLLM and SGLang" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 23.95, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072", "runBuild": "gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Google (Gemma)", "family": "Gemma 4", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#google", "others": [ { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active" }, { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B", "params": "30.7B" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it", "params": "30.7B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-31b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B", "params": "2.3B effective (5.1B with embeddings)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it", "params": "2.3B effective (5.1B with embeddings)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e2b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B", "params": "4.5B effective (8B with embeddings)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it", "params": "4.5B effective (8B with embeddings)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e4b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant", "params": "420M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant", "params": "470M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant", "params": "78M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant", "params": "79M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B", "params": "11.95B" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant", "params": "423M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it" }, { "name": "embeddinggemma-2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-2", "params": "740M" } ], "olderCount": 171, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://gemma.ai/models/releases/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The registrant and registration date are carried from the gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it facts read earlier on 21 October 2026, since rdap.org rate-limited our request this time and wasn't retried.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "gemma.ai keeps a dated releases page for the Gemma family (this size on 3 June 2026). The Hugging Face commit history says what each change fixed.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. Google's company-wide security.txt at google.com points to its vulnerability reward programme." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json" }, "answer": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Kimi K3's 62.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Kimi K3 leads on capability.", "b": { "slug": "kimi-k3", "name": "Kimi K3", "vendor": "Moonshot AI", "vendorUrl": "https://www.moonshot.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model, 2.8T parameters with 104B active and a 1M-token context, trained in MXFP4 and published on Hugging Face under the modified-MIT Kimi K3 Licence.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kimi-k3.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3", "license": "Kimi K3 License (modified MIT)", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the Kimi K3 Licence. A company running a model-as-a-service business with more than $20 million in revenue over 12 months needs a separate agreement with Moonshot AI, at a price not published. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 1,561 GB of files (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "modified-mit", "safetensors", "mxfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-02", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 62.4, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 24, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 75, "interface": 65, "reach": 50, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 41 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.", "bestFor": "Teams with a multi-node GPU cluster who want an open 1M-context agent model for long coding and research work", "strengths": [ "1,048,576 tokens of context trained in, with indexed parallel tool calls in one turn", "Model code in released vLLM, SGLang and llama.cpp, with recipes linked from the card", "A third-party cyber evaluation by the UK AI Security Institute and CAISI", "Safetensors only, with a SHA-256 for every shard, downloadable with no account", "Served by Moonshot's API and five inference providers for agents without the hardware" ], "weaknesses": [ "1,561 GB of files at its smallest publisher build, far beyond any single machine", "No Jinja template, so prompts, tokeniser and model load through Moonshot's Python with trust_remote_code", "No Moonshot reply in the 40 most recent discussions, and a tokeniser report waits unanswered", "No disclosure route for flaws and no prompt-injection guidance", "No training sources, sizes or knowledge cut-off, and the card leaves out limitations and languages" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect", "Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable", "Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow", "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones", "Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear", "Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 62.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 75, "interface": 65, "reach": 50, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 41 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# SGLang, per its Kimi-K3 cookbook linked from the card (one node of 8 B300 GPUs)\nsglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 \\\n --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 \\\n --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "http": "curl http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"moonshotai/Kimi-K3\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"reasoning_effort\": \"high\"\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/kimi-k3" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "Moonshot AI", "params": "2.8T", "active": "104B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Large multimodal agent model for coding and long tool-calling sessions, text and images in, with always-on reasoning and JSON Schema output.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Kimi-K3", "url": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mxfp4", "sizeGB": 1560.9, "memoryGB": 2048, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Trained in MXFP4; the only build Moonshot publishes" } ], "run": "sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000", "runBuild": "Kimi-K3", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 2048 }, "family": { "lab": "Moonshot AI (Kimi)", "family": "Kimi K3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#moonshot", "olderCount": 18, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Moonshot AI (the licence names Moonshot AI; the Kimi Platform terms name Moonshot AI PTE. LTD.)", "domain": "moonshot.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "moonshot.ai's registration date couldn't be read through RDAP on 21 October 2026.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The licence names Moonshot AI. The Kimi Platform's terms (platform.kimi.ai/docs/agreement/modeluse) name Moonshot AI PTE. LTD. as the party for its API.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Kimi K3 Licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history. 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"gemma-4-12b-it": 50, "key": "capability", "kimi-k3": 75, "name": "Capability", "weight": 35 }, { "by": 45, "edge": "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it": 95, "key": "reach", "kimi-k3": 50, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it": 70, "key": "risk", "kimi-k3": 65, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it": 85, "key": "interface", "kimi-k3": 65, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 34, "edge": "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it": 75, "key": "upkeep", "kimi-k3": 41, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Kimi K3's 62.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Kimi K3 leads on capability. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "gemma-4-12b-it": "A mid-size cousin for agent work with tools, optional thinking and image and audio input, under Apache 2.0. Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.", "kimi-k3": "Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3.min.md" }, "markdown": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Kimi K3's 62.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Kimi K3 leads on capability. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Gemma 4 12B IT: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #5 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json\n- Kimi K3: grade B, 62.4/100, rank #29 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kimi-k3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/kimi-k3.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Gemma 4 12B IT (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents on a 12 GB or larger GPU or Mac that want a permissively licensed tool-calling model with images, audio and long context\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 50\n- Risk, 70 against 65\n- Agent interface, 85 against 65\n- Documentation and upkeep, 75 against 41\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.3 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety evaluation figures published\n\n### Kimi K3 (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with a multi-node GPU cluster who want an open 1M-context agent model for long coding and research work\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 75 against 50\n\nWatch for: 1,561 GB of files at its smallest publisher build, far beyond any single machine\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemma 4 12B IT | Kimi K3 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 50 | 75 | Kimi K3 +25 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 50 | Gemma 4 12B IT +45 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 70 | 65 | Gemma 4 12B IT +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 65 | Gemma 4 12B IT +20 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 41 | Gemma 4 12B IT +34 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **62.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemma 4 12B IT | Kimi K3 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Google DeepMind | Moonshot AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Kimi K3 License (modified MIT) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-07-20 | 2026-09-02 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | 2.3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Gemma 4 12B IT.** A mid-size cousin for agent work with tools, optional thinking and image and audio input, under Apache 2.0. Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.\n\n**Kimi K3.** Kimi K3 is a 2.8T multimodal agent model with a 1M-token context, parallel tool calls and per-request effort, for long coding and research sessions. Its 1,561 GB of files need a multi-node GPU cluster, so most agents will call a hosted copy. The main risks are Moonshot's Python running at load and prompt time, and no answers in its repository.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Gemma 4 12B IT\n\n1. On the reference machine run `llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072`, and add `--mmproj` with mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf for images and audio\n2. With Ollama run `ollama run gemma4:12b` and raise num_ctx or OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH, since the default context is small and agents want at least 64K\n3. In vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser gemma4 --reasoning-parser gemma4` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`), or tool calls come back as text; Google's w4a16 build is the 4-bit route there\n4. Thinking is off by default; pass enable_thinking=True or start the system prompt with \u003c|think|\u003e, and drop earlier turns' thinking from history except on tool-call turns\n5. Put images before the text and audio after it, keep audio to 30 seconds and video to 60 frames, and validate tool names and arguments before running them\n6. Transformers needs 5.10.0 or later for gemma4_unified, and mlx-lm has no gemma4_unified code, so on a Mac use mlx-vlm, LM Studio or Ollama\n\n### Kimi K3\n\n1. Start it with SGLang on a node of 8 B300s, sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path moonshotai/Kimi-K3 --tp-size 8 --context-length 65536 --mem-fraction-static 0.82 --reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3 --port 30000\n2. Use the kimi_k3 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, and validate tool-call arguments against the schema, since vLLM's recipe says K3 sometimes emits a format its parser doesn't expect\n3. Pass the whole assistant message back every turn, reasoning_content and tool_calls included, or output becomes unstable\n4. Thinking is always on; set reasoning_effort to low or high when max is too slow\n5. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0, with top-p 0.95 for single-step tasks and 1.0 for agentic ones\n6. Don't hand an ongoing session from another model to K3, and state boundaries in the system prompt, since Moonshot warns it can act on its own when intent is unclear\n7. Without the hardware, call it through Moonshot's API or an inference provider listed on its Hugging Face page\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Gemma 4 12B IT or Kimi K3?\n\nGemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Kimi K3's 62.4 (B), and leads in 4 of 5 scored categories. Kimi K3 leads on capability.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-kimi-k3.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gemma-4-12b-it\", \"b\": \"kimi-k3\"}`. 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