# Gemma 3 12B vs video-SALMONN 2+

> Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); video-SALMONN 2+ does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemma-3-12b-vs-video-salmonn-2-plus
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- Gemma 3 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | ByteDance Seed |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 41.4 |
| Rank | 262 | — |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.05 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Gemma 3 12B: 31.7 (#280)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 17.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1281 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemma 3 12B: 25.5 (#108)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 30.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemma 3 12B: 15.7 (#313)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1309 | — |
| DTBench | 48.8% | — |
| LMCA | 4.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.5 | — |

## Math

- Gemma 3 12B: 22.3 (#279)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.7% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemma 3 12B: 26.5 (#257)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 39.5% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 4.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1248 | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemma 3 12B: —
- video-SALMONN 2+: 42.5

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| Video-MME | — | 79.7% |
| MindCube | 46.7% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemma 3 12B: 45.7 (#165)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1318 | — |
| LMArena German | 1370 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1335 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Gemma 3 12B: 68.6 (#186)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1299 | — |

## Long Context

- Gemma 3 12B: 40.0 (#162)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1317 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemma 3 12B: 47.5 (#209)
- video-SALMONN 2+: —

| Benchmark | Gemma 3 12B | video-SALMONN 2+ |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1334 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1126 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1334 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemma 3 12B better than video-SALMONN 2+?

Gemma 3 12B has enough public results to be ranked (#262); video-SALMONN 2+ does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Gemma 3 12B and video-SALMONN 2+ share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemma 3 12B has 24 scored results on Noometry and video-SALMONN 2+ has 1.