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title: "Gemma 4: Google open-weight models from phone to workstation"
description: "A family of Google DeepMind open-weight models in five sizes that take text and image input and suit reasoning, agentic workflows, coding and multimodal understanding on devices from phones…"
url: "https://gearlist.build/tools/gemma-4/"
id: "gemma-4"
category: "Models"
official_url: "https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/"
source_url: "https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/"
source_checked: "2026-11-07"
added: "2026-11-07"
image: "https://gearlist.build/og/tools/gemma-4.png"
---

# Gemma 4

A family of Google DeepMind open-weight models in five sizes that take text and image input and suit reasoning, agentic workflows, coding and multimodal understanding on devices from phones to workstations.

- Official link: https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/
- Group: [Models](https://gearlist.build/category/models/), as Markdown at https://gearlist.build/category/models.md
- Added to Gearlist: 7 November 2026
- For: Developers who want an Apache-2.0 model with function calling that they can run on their own phone, laptop, GPU or server.
- Access and use: Download the weights from Hugging Face (for example google/gemma-4-31B-it, not gated) or Kaggle; Google publishes official 4-bit GGUF builds for local use on CPU, Apple Silicon or consumer GPUs. The Gemini API also hosts the two largest sizes as gemma-4-31b-it and gemma-4-26b-a4b-it, free of charge on the free tier only, where Google uses prompts and responses to improve its products. The context window is 128K tokens on E2B and E4B and 256K tokens on 12B, 26B A4B and 31B. All sizes take text and image input and produce text. Google lists native function calling, a system role and configurable thinking. Parameter counts are 2.3B effective (5.1B with embeddings) for E2B, 4.5B effective (8B) for E4B, 11.95B for 12B, 30.7B for 31B, and 25.2B total with 3.8B active for the 26B A4B mixture-of-experts model. Google's own table puts the GPU or TPU memory to load the weights at 69.9 GB in 16-bit, 34.9 GB in 8-bit and 17.5 GB in 4-bit for 31B; 57.7, 28.8 and 14.4 GB for 26B A4B (all of its parameters must be loaded); 26.7, 13.4 and 6.7 GB for 12B; and 2.9 GB in 4-bit for E2B; the context window and supporting software need memory on top. Google says the models permit responsible commercial use, and its Gemma 4 licence page is the Apache License 2.0. Apache-2.0.
- Gearlist id: `gemma-4`, for the MCP tool get_gear at https://gearlist.build/mcp

## What we checked

- Last checked: 7 November 2026
- Source read: https://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/
- How it was checked: Official documentation and pricing reviewed; not independently tested

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All 14 Models entries: https://gearlist.build/category/models/
Gearlist: https://gearlist.build/