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Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean API pricing
$0.175 in, $0.875 out per million tokens.
gemma-4-12b-starry-oceanmanaged routeOpenAI SDK
Price · per million tokens, USD
Get a key| Tokens | Google (community tune) list price | UplinkSwitch | Saving |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input | — | $0.175 | — |
| Cached input | Billed at the input rate. | ||
| Output | — | $0.875 | — |
No list price on record. Same price on every host.
Real-model check: Same fingerprint since Oct 20
Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean specs
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Input
- text and image
Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: a small Gemma 4 story merge · Semancer and StationKeeper merged at 12B
Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean is Vortex5's G4 Starry Ocean, a custom-method merge of UnstableLlama's Semancer 12B and ewald1976's StationKeeper on Google's Gemma 4 12B (its card, created 2026-07-05). The card lists structured long-form storytelling, emotion-forward roleplay and atmospheric fiction. It is served as gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean at $0.175 input and $0.875 output per million tokens, one of 146 builds in the uncensored LLM API, on the same key as every other model. Added 2026-10-20.
| Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean | |
|---|---|
| Base model | Gemma 4 12B |
| Made by | Vortex5 |
| Method | Custom merge of two Gemma 4 12B tunes |
| License on the card | apache-2.0 |
| Context window here | 131,072 tokens |
| Downloads, 30 days to 2026-10-20 | 166 |
| Card | Vortex5/G4-Starry-Ocean-12B |
From the Hugging Face card and its API record, read 2026-10-20.
curl
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean","max_tokens":1024,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean next to the other uncensored models · per million tokens, live
A chat turn is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens. Live from the catalog, ordered by the cost of 1,000 turns.
Worked for Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean: 1,000 turns are 2,000,000 input tokens and 500,000 output tokens. At $0.175 input and $0.875 output per million tokens, that is $0.35 + $0.4375 = $0.79, paid from prepaid credit with no subscription.
Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean API · base URL and key
Python · OpenAI SDK
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1",
api_key="sk-uplink-live-...",
)
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this in one line."}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)TypeScript · OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from 'openai';
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: 'https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1',
apiKey: 'sk-uplink-live-...',
});
const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: 'gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Summarize this in one line.' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);curl
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'What would it cost? · paste a prompt, priced before you send it
Input is counted at about 4 characters per token.
Cheapest first. A real request is billed on the provider's own token count. Same estimate as JSON: POST https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/estimate, no key needed.
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Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean questions
- What is Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean?
- Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean is a model from Google (community tune), with a 131,072-token context window, taking text and image input. Through UplinkSwitch it answers the OpenAI SDK on one key as gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean.
- How much does the Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean API cost?
- $0.175 per million input tokens and $0.875 per million output tokens.
- Is Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean free?
- It is pay as you go: prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee, billed per token. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token reply costs about $0.0006.
- What is the Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean context window?
- Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean has a 131,072-token context window. It takes text and image input.
- What is the Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean model id?
- gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean. Send it as the model through the OpenAI SDK with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.
- How do I get a Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean API key?
- Create one in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console: prepaid credit from $10, no subscription, and the key is live at once. The same key calls Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean and every other model in the catalog; send it as the bearer token with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.
- Is it the real Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean?
- Every day each model gets the same test prompt, and a model always counts that prompt the same way; a swapped one would not. Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean's latest result: Same fingerprint since Oct 20.
- Is there a Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean API?
- Yes: gemma-4-12b-starry-ocean on the OpenAI format at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1, $0.175 input and $0.875 output per million tokens. No weights to download and no GPU of your own; the key also runs every other model in the catalog.
- What is Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean based on?
- Google’s Gemma 4 12B it, by way of Vortex5’s merge of Semancer-12B and G4-12B-Station-Keeper, per its card.
- What license does Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean have?
- The card lists Apache-2.0, the license of Gemma 4.
- What does Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean cost per 100 messages?
- $0.0788 for 100 chat turns of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, at $0.175 input and $0.875 output per million tokens, from prepaid credit with no subscription.
- Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean or Gemma 4 12B StationKeeper?
- StationKeeper is one of the two tunes in Starry Ocean: ewald1976’s quiet science-fiction roleplay tune on its own, or Vortex5’s merge of it with Semancer 12B. Gemma 4 12B Starry Ocean is $0.175 / $0.875 per million tokens in / out, $0.79 for 1,000 chat turns; Gemma 4 12B StationKeeper is $0.175 / $0.875 per million tokens in / out, $0.79 for 1,000 chat turns. Both run on the same key, so send the same prompt to each.
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