embeddinggemma-2 (google) specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: embeddinggemma-2 (google)
Author: Google

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Oct 6, 2026

Provider: Google
Release date: Oct 6, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 744M total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Embeddings; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 1.5 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 0.7 GB at 8-bit, about 0.4 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
34	MTEBEmbeddings · as “google/embeddinggemma-2”	Embeddings	60.5%	96

Versions and release history

2 versions in this line since Sep 4, 2025, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

Version	Released	Source
embeddinggemma-2 (google)this model	Oct 6, 20263 weeks ago	Boards
embeddinggemma-300M (google)	Sep 4, 20251 year ago	Boards

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