EmbeddingGemma 2

Oct 2026
EmbeddingGemma 2
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$0.02per 1M tokens
67.1MIEB lite
Oct 2026released
512Dimensions
8K tokensMax input

Rankingconfiguration unstated?

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1LCO Embedding Omni 7B502LCO Embedding Omni 3B47.63BidirLM Omni 2.5B Embedding464Ebind Full415Jina Embeddings v5 Omni Small40.5
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12EVA02 CLIP B 1638.913EmbeddingGemma 238.614OmniEmbed v0.137.8

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Embeddings & Retrieval#51 of 89

Alternatives?

ModelScoreCostPriceWhat changes
LBetterLCO Embedding Omni 7BunstatedOpen+30%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 5.4 GBLBetterLCO Embedding Omni 3BunstatedOpen+23%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 2.8 GBBBetterBidirLM Omni 2.5B EmbeddingunstatedOpen+19%——Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 1.5 GBeBetterEbind FullunstatedOpen+6%——Max input: 8K tokens → 0K tokens+1OpenJina Embeddings v5 Omni Smallunstated+5%+150%$0.05Memory (4-bit): 0.2 GB → 1 GB

Run it yourself

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Fits on✓ 8 GB (phone, laptop) · full quality✓ 16 GB · full quality✓ 24 GB GPU · full quality✓ 48 GB GPU · full quality✓ 80 GB GPU · full quality
LicenceGemma termsfree for commercial use

Benchmarks

in Embeddings & Retrieval
MAEB v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (159 languages)49.3#7
MAEB v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (159 languages)48#9
MAEB v1 · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52.3#5
MAEB v1 · Audio Zero-shot Classification · English55.4#8
MAEB v1 · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (150 languages)53#4
MAEB v1 · Audio Pair Classification · English67.5#1
MAEB v1 · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content66.5#21
MAEB v1 · Audio Multilabel Classification · English38.8#22
MAEB v1 · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)2.7#24
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over tasks · multilingual (102 languages)47.8#8
MAEB v1 audio-only · Mean over task types · multilingual (102 languages)48.9#24
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Classification · multilingual (102 languages)52.3#5
MAEB v1 audio-only · Any-to-any Retrieval · multilingual (4 languages)55.4#31
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Clustering · multilingual (6 languages)2.7#24
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Pair Classification · English67.5#1
MAEB v1 audio-only · Audio Reranking · No linguistic content66.5#21
MIEB lite · Mean over tasks · multilingual (41 languages)63.5#5
MIEB lite · Mean over task types · multilingual (41 languages)63.5#5
MIEB lite · Vision Centric QA · English52.1#24
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Retrieval · English38.3#1
MIEB lite · Document Understanding · English67.1#51
MIEB lite · Zero-shot Classification · English64.6#17
MIEB lite · Compositionality · English38.6#13
MIEB lite · Image Classification · English72.9#20
MIEB lite · Any-to-any Multilingual Retrieval · multilingual (40 languages)64.6#2
MIEB lite · Image Clustering · English78.7#12
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (English) · English81.5#6
MIEB lite · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)76.8#4
MIEB multilingual · Visual semantic similarity (multilingual) · multilingual (13 languages)76.8#4
MTEB Europe v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (28 languages)84.2#61
MTEB Europe v1 · Clustering · multilingual (29 languages)43#47
MTEB Europe v1 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.6#74
MTEB Europe v1 · Reranking · multilingual (12 languages)59#43
MTEB Europe v1 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (23 languages)16.5#52
MTEB French v1 · Pair Classification · French57.9#97
MTEB Indic v1 · Reranking · multilingual (2 languages)85.2#41
MTEB Indic v1 · Pair Classification · Hindi75.1#34
MTEB Indic v1 · STS · multilingual (13 languages)36.8#56
MTEB Indic v1 · Clustering · multilingual (21 languages)32.1#63
MTEB Dutch v1 · Reranking · Dutch87.8#60
MTEB Portuguese v1 · Multilabel Classification · Portuguese30.9#5
MTEB Medical v1 · Clustering · English41.1#49
FollowIR · Mean over tasks · English-0.6#74
FollowIR · Mean over task types · English-0.6#74
FollowIR · Instruction Reranking · English-0.6#74
MTEB Spanish v1 · Pair Classification · Spanish66.6#56
MTEB Thai v1 · Clustering · Thai44.2#54
MTEB Thai v1 · Pair Classification · Thai74.9#42
MTEB Scandinavian v1 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (3 languages)71.2#39
CoIR · Mean over tasks · multilingual (9 languages)76.3#15
CoIR · Mean over task types · multilingual (9 languages)76.3#15
CoIR · Retrieval · multilingual (9 languages)76.3#15
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (15 languages)77.9#13
MTEB Code v1 · Mean over task types · multilingual (15 languages)77.9#13
MTEB Code v1 · Retrieval · multilingual (15 languages)77.9#13
MTEB Russian v1.1 · Pair Classification · Russian57.1#67
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over tasks · multilingual (1037 languages)60.5#33
MTEB multilingual v2 · Mean over task types · multilingual (1037 languages)52.8#36
MTEB multilingual v2 · Classification · multilingual (119 languages)62.3#31
MTEB multilingual v2 · Clustering · multilingual (208 languages)47.6#44
MTEB multilingual v2 · STS · multilingual (35 languages)73.9#36
MTEB multilingual v2 · Pair Classification · multilingual (24 languages)78.7#52
MTEB multilingual v2 · Retrieval · multilingual (120 languages)60.6#39
MTEB multilingual v2 · Bitext Mining · multilingual (1026 languages)65.5#53
MTEB multilingual v2 · Instruction Reranking · English-0.6#74
MTEB multilingual v2 · Multilabel Classification · multilingual (25 languages)25.2#24
MTEB multilingual v2 · Reranking · multilingual (22 languages)62.3#49

FAQ

How much does EmbeddingGemma 2 cost?›

$0.02 per 1M tokens.

Is EmbeddingGemma 2 free to use?›

There is no free API; the cheapest paid price is $0.02 per 1M input tokens. The weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

How good is EmbeddingGemma 2, and what is it best at?›

#51 of 89 in Multimodal.

Is EmbeddingGemma 2 better than EVA02 CLIP B 16?›

On MIEB lite · Compositionality · English, EmbeddingGemma 2 scores 38.6 vs 38.9 — about the same.

How can I use EmbeddingGemma 2?›

Through the Google API.

When was EmbeddingGemma 2 released? Is there a newer version?›

Released 2026-10-06. It is the current version in its line.

Is EmbeddingGemma 2 open source?›

Yes, the weights are open (gemma licence).

Can I run EmbeddingGemma 2 locally?›

The weights are open and can be self-hosted; hardware needs are not confirmed yet.

What is EmbeddingGemma 2?›

EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open-weights embeddings & retrieval model from Google, released Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to EmbeddingGemma 2?›

LCO Embedding Omni 7B (better).