Gemini Embedding
Gemini Embedding is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Gemini Embedding
- Released
- 2023-12-13
- Specialization
- embedding
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI
About
Gemini Embedding is a language model from Google DeepMind focused on text embeddings for retrieval and semantic search. It was released 2023-12-13.
Gemini Embedding is a proprietary model. This page tracks provider routes through Google AI Studio, GCP Vertex AI, and Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.15 input and free output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Gemini Embedding yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.150 | Free | Serverless |
| Google AI Studio | $0.150 | Free | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.150 | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Gemini Embedding cost?
Gemini Embedding is available at $0.15/1M input tokens through Google AI Studio.
When was Gemini Embedding released?
Gemini Embedding was released on 2023-12-13.
Which providers offer Gemini Embedding?
Gemini Embedding is available from 3 providers: Google AI Studio, GCP Vertex AI, Vercel AI Gateway.
Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI