Comparing to Gemma 4 12B’s local, encoder-free multimodality? Try
GPT-4o,
Llama,
Qwen3, and
Ollama. GPT-4o shines at fast, rich multimodal reasoning; Llama brings open weights and a huge ecosystem; Qwen3 lets you pick depth vs speed; and Ollama makes local model management dead-simple for privacy-first stacks.