Spotlight is a 7‑billion‑parameter vision‑language model derived from Qwen 2.5‑VL and fine‑tuned by Arcee AI for tight image‑text grounding tasks. It offers a 32 k‑token context window, enabling rich multimodal conversations that combine le…
Model details →Arcee AI: Spotlight vs google/gemma-3-4b-it
google/gemma-3-4b-it wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Gemma 3 introduces multimodality, supporting vision-language input and text outputs. It handles context windows up to 128k tokens, understands over 140 languages, and offers improved math, reasoning, and chat capabilities, including structu…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Arcee AI: Spotlight | google/gemma-3-4b-it | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 131K | 131K | Tie |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.18 | $0.04 | 🏆 google/gemma-3-4b-it |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.18 | $0.08 | 🏆 google/gemma-3-4b-it |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | — | — | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Arcee AI: Spotlight better than google/gemma-3-4b-it?
google/gemma-3-4b-it wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Arcee AI: Spotlight and google/gemma-3-4b-it?
Input: $0.18 vs $0.04 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.18 vs $0.08 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Arcee AI: Spotlight and google/gemma-3-4b-it support?
Arcee AI: Spotlight supports up to 131K tokens. google/gemma-3-4b-it supports up to 131K tokens.
Do both Arcee AI: Spotlight and google/gemma-3-4b-it support tool calling?
Arcee AI: Spotlight: not advertised. google/gemma-3-4b-it: not advertised.