# google/gemma-3-12b-it

Calls to the model google/gemma-3-12b-it on Novita AI stopped working on January 8, 2026.

## What to use instead

google/gemma-3-27b-it, named first, stops working on 2026-11-26. No replacement that holds is named yet.

- API: Novita AI (api.novita.ai)
- Model: google/gemma-3-12b-it
- Released: March 12, 2025 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: January 8, 2026
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model google/gemma-3-12b-it`
- Source: [Model notices](https://novita.ai/docs/llms-full.txt#deprecation-notice)
- Verified: November 6, 2026, against Novita AI's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/novita-ai/google/gemma-3-12b-it/

## Novita AI's words

> Deprecated model: google/gemma-3-12b-it; Recommended alternatives: google/gemma-3-27b-it

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent