Gemini Embedding 2
Gemini Embedding 2 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 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Gemini Embedding
- Released
- 2026-04-22
- Specialization
- embedding
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Cheapest of 2 routes · Google AI Studio
About
General availability release of Google's multimodal embedding model, released April 22, 2026. Generates 3072-dimensional vectors from text, images, documents, audio, and video inputs, mapping all modalities into a unified semantic space. Supports custom task instructions to optimize embeddings for retrieval, classification, clustering, or other goals. Output dimensionality is configurable via the output_dimensionality parameter. Priced at $0.20/1M input tokens. Distinct from gemini-embedding-2-preview (the earlier preview version). API ID: gemini-embedding-2.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio | $0.200 | Free | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.200 | - | 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
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.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Google AI Studio