Gemma 4 1B

Phone / tiny

Google · 1B parameters · released 2026-03 · Gemma · runs on iOS & Android

✓ Free to run locally☁ Free on OpenRouter

Runs on a phone. Great for on-device drafting and simple chat.

Best used for

WritingGeneral

Text

Memory needed (GB)

More compression (Q4) and a smaller context window both lower the RAM this model needs. A bigger context window is not free — watch the numbers climb to the right.

Quant	4K ctx	8K ctx	32K ctx	128K ctx
Q4	0.6	0.6	0.7	1
Q8	1.2	1.2	1.5	2
FP16	2.3	2.4	2.9	4

Ways to run it

✓

On your own machine — free & private

LM Studio (search)

gemma-4-1b

Ollama (local)

ollama run gemma4:1b

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Or as a hosted API — optional, for when you're away

Reachable on OpenRouter with a free tier — no per-token bill on the free model id. Same one key also works with Ollama's cloud option and most chat apps.

OpenRouter model id

google/gemma-4-1b:free

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Source: https://huggingface.co/google · verified 2026-06-15