multimodal joint embedding modèle projecting texte, image, audio, et vidéo dans un shared semantic space.
Technical Specifications
- Provider
- Category
- lightweight
- Release Date
- 2026-04
- Batch API Discount
- 50% off async batch
- Consumer Subscription
- $20 / month
- Reasoning Effort Control
- Fixed
- Structured Outputs
- No
- Output Modalities
- embedding
- Official Documentation
- Visit Official Docs ↗
Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance
Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs
- Official API Model ID (SDK String)
- models/gemini-embedding-2
- Supported SDK & API Protocol
- Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
- Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
- Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
- Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
- 10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 800,000 – 2,000,000 TPM
- Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
- Flat rate ($0.2/1M in) across full 8K window
- Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
- Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0/1M with configurable TTL
- Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
- Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
- MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
- Prompt-based JSON extraction only
- Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
- Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
- Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
- Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
- Multimodal Tokenization Billing
- Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec)
- Weights Precision & Quantization
- Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster)
- Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
- Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
- Supported Inference Engines
- Managed Google Cloud API
- System Card & Safety Framework
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
- Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
- SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Gemini Embedding 2 Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration
Pay-as-you-go API is cheaper for this volume (saves $14.00/mo vs $20 flat plan).
Break-even point: ~1,667 requests/day equals $20/month.
Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models
Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter
Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.
Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator
Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Gemini Embedding 2:
Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar
- Chatbot Arena Elo
- 1340pts
Strengths
- Projects texte, image, vidéo et audio dans un unique vector space
- 8K contexte support
- Enables cross-modal semantic recherche
Limitations & Trade-offs
- vidéo embedding nécessite supérieur compute temps
- supérieur vector dimensionality
Editorial Assessment
le benchmark multimodal embedding modèle pour d'entreprise semantic recherche.
Best for: Cross-modal récupération, multimodal RAG, et vidéo/audio recherche engines
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Frequently Asked Questions about Gemini Embedding 2
How much does the Gemini Embedding 2 API cost per 1M tokens?+
Gemini Embedding 2 by Google is priced at $0.2 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 50% discount.
Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Gemini Embedding 2 pay-as-you-go API?+
A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.
How many words and pages fit in Gemini Embedding 2's context window?+
Gemini Embedding 2 features a 8K tokens context window, which equals approximately 6,144 English words or ~16 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 4,096 tokens.
Can I run Gemini Embedding 2 locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+
No, Gemini Embedding 2 is a proprietary closed-weights model hosted by Google. It cannot be downloaded for local GPU execution and must be accessed via Google's official API or cloud platform.
Does Google train on data sent to the Gemini Embedding 2 API, and is commercial use allowed?+
API payloads are excluded from model training by default. License tier: Proprietary Commercial API (Google Terms). Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Google AI Studio API, Google Cloud Vertex AI.
How does Gemini Embedding 2 perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+
Gemini Embedding 2 achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 78/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, N/A% on MMLU-Pro, and 1340 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.
What is Gemini Embedding 2 best used for?+
Gemini Embedding 2 is best suited for: Cross-modal récupération, multimodal RAG, et vidéo/audio recherche engines. Assessment: le benchmark multimodal embedding modèle pour d'entreprise semantic recherche.
Google Family Lineage, Routing Tiers & Upgrade Path
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AI Glossary & Architecture Concepts
View full glossary →Key machine learning concepts and benchmarks relevant to Gemini Embedding 2:
L'unité textuelle de base traitée par un modèle linguistique, représentant généralement 3 à 4 caractères ou environ 0,75 mot. Par exemple, une phrase courante est découpée en plusieurs jetons.
Une suite de tests standardisés permettant d'évaluer et de comparer objectivement les performances des modèles d'IA sur des tâches ciblées (code avec SWE-bench, mathématiques avec AIME, etc.).
Le nombre maximal de jetons qu'un modèle peut traiter simultanément (entrée et sortie comprises). Une fenêtre de 1 000 000 jetons permet d'analyser environ 750 000 mots en une seule requête.
Un réseau neuronal multimodal conçu pour analyser, raisonner et générer conjointement des données visuelles (images, schémas, interfaces) et du langage naturel au sein d'une même structure.
L'architecture de réseau neuronal introduite en 2017 à la base des LLM modernes, utilisant l'auto-attention pour traiter tous les jetons en parallèle plutôt que séquentiellement.
Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.