Can't Beat Free: Gemma 4 31B on AMD Token Lab, with a Local Chat Page and an ADK Agent

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Practical guide to using AMD Token Lab with Gemma 4, highly actionable for cloud AI deployment.

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For platform engineers and AI/ML developers evaluating cost-effective inference options, this offers a production-grade, free alternative to cloud LLM APIs that can be integrated into agent orchestration workflows like ADK or LangGraph without GPU provisioning overhead.

Key Takeaways

Join the AMD AI Developer Program to get a Token Lab key and prototype multimodal agents with Gemma 4 31B at near-zero cost, using the OpenAI-compatible endpoint for drop-in replacement in existing stacks.

Can't Beat Free: Gemma 4 31B on AMD Token Lab, with a Local Chat Page and an ADK Agent

Summary

AMD's Token Lab provides a free, OpenAI-compatible API for running Gemma 4 31B on AMD Instinct and Radeon GPUs, accessible through the AMD AI Developer Program with no credit card required. A step-by-step guide demonstrates building a local chat page, terminal client, and ADK agent using the API, which costs 0.035 points per million input tokens and 0.07 per million output tokens, with 10 points allocated per 30-day access period. The API supports multimodal inputs (text and images) with a 262,144-token context window and works with OpenAI/Anthropic SDKs, LangChain, and curl, though speeds vary and SSE drops require handling.

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