Gemma 4 (Google) Pricing
All plans and pricing as of 2026-04-19
Self-hosted
- ✓Apache 2.0 license
- ✓Free download from Hugging Face/Kaggle/Ollama
- ✓Run on your own hardware
API (OpenRouter, Gemma 4 31B)
- ✓Hosted inference
- ✓$0.14 input / $0.40 output
- ✓No infrastructure setup
Is Gemma 4 (Google) Worth the Price?
Value Score: 10/10
Overall Score: 8.3/10 · Developers and businesses who need a permissively licensed multimodal LLM they can self-host or fine-tune. Especially good for multilingual use cases and on-device deployment.
Gemma 4 is Google's answer to the open-weights race against Meta's Llama and the wave of strong Chinese open models. The Apache 2.0 license is a big deal -- it removes the legal friction that made earlier Gemma adoption awkward. The 31B Dense model is genuinely competitive with frontier closed models on benchmarks while costing $0.14/M input via API. If you're building a product on open-weights LLMs and you need multimodal + multilingual + permissive licensing, Gemma 4 is now a top choice.
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How Gemma 4 (Google) Pricing Compares
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