Gemma 3 (1B) API

Lightweight text-only AI model for diverse applications
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Overview

Gemma 3 (1B) Description

Overview

Gemma 3 (1B) is a part of Google's Gemma 3 family, offering a lightweight solution for text processing tasks. Optimized for on-device applications, it balances performance and resource efficiency, making it suitable for environments with limited computational resources. The model supports a context window of up to 32K tokens, enabling it to handle substantial text inputs effectively.

Key Features
  • Text-Only Processing: Specializes in handling text inputs and generating text outputs without multimodal capabilities.​
  • Extended Context Window: Supports up to 32K tokens, facilitating the processing of lengthy documents.​
  • Multilingual Support: Capable of understanding and generating text in over 140 languages.​
  • Optimized for Efficiency: Designed to run efficiently on devices with limited memory, requiring approximately 1.5 GB of memory in 16-bit precision. ​
Intended Use
  • Content Creation: Assists in generating written content for various applications, including articles and reports.​
  • Language Translation: Facilitates translation tasks across a wide range of languages.​
  • Educational Tools: Enhances learning experiences through interactive text-based content.​
  • Data Analysis: Supports summarization and interpretation of large textual datasets.​

Usage


Ethical Guidelines

Google emphasizes ethical considerations in AI development by promoting transparency regarding the model's capabilities and limitations. The company encourages responsible usage to prevent misuse or harmful applications of generated content.

Licensing

Gemma is provided under and subject to the Gemma Terms of Use. Models are available under a commercially-friendly license that allows both research and commercial usage rights while ensuring compliance with ethical standards.

Use cases

  • In-app AI assistants and chatbots on mobile and web platforms
  • Private, local on-device AI processing without cloud dependency
  • Content generation and summarization for long documents
  • Multilingual communication and translation tools
  • Interactive educational applications and tutoring systems

How to use Gemma 3 (1B) API

Install any OpenAI-compatible SDK, point it at api.aimlapi.com/v1, and set the model to .

OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.

Gemma 3 (1B) API Pricing

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Gemma 3 (1B) Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreWhat it measuresSourceRetrieved
Intelligence
4.8
Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 22, 2026
Math
3.3
Composite score across standardised mathematics evaluations, measured independently by Artificial AnalysisSourceSeptember 22, 2026
HellaSwag
62.3
Commonsense sentence completion with adversarially filtered wrong endingsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
GPQA Diamond
19.2
Google-proof graduate science questions (hardest subset)SourceSeptember 22, 2026
LiveCodeBench
1.9
Contamination-free competitive programming problemsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
MATH
48.0
Competition mathematics problems across five difficulty levelsSourceSeptember 22, 2026
MMLU-Pro
14.7
Multi-discipline knowledge + reasoning (harder MMLU)SourceSeptember 22, 2026

Gemma 3 (1B) vs other models

ModelInputOutputContextBest for
Gemma 3 (1B)
This page
$6.5 / 1M tokens
$39 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents
$2.6 / 1M tokens
$13 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Balanced coding + agents
$3.9 / 1M tokens
$19.5 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Long-context, multimodal & agentic workflows
$1.95 / 1M tokens
$11.7 / 1M tokens
1M tokens
Reasoning + agents

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Gemma 3 (1B) can stream responses as they are generated.

Yes, Gemma 3 (1B) supports both function calling and structured outputs.

Gemma 3 (1B) was built by Google.

Gemma 3 (1B) is accessed via the v1 endpoint.

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