Gemma 2 9B

Name: Gemma 2 9B
Author: Google DeepMind

Released

2024-06-27

Last refreshed

2026-10-07

Status

Researched 160d ago

Open weightsCommercial use: restrictedCodingClassificationJSON / Tool use

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Specifications

Family: Gemma 2
Released: 2024-06-27
Context: 8K
Parameters: 9B
Architecture: Decoder Only
Specialization: general
Openness: Open weights
License: GemmaRestricted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Fine-tuned

Created by

Google DeepMind

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom

Founded 2014

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

$0.180

Input / 1M

$0.060

Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI

Providers(3)

GCP Vertex AI Fireworks AI Bitdeer AI

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About

Gemma 2 9B is Google DeepMind's Gemma 2 model. It offers an 8K-token context window with weights openly available for self-hosting and scores 52.1 on MMLU PRO.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Q/$ A

Classification

Q/$ B

Providers(3)

Compare all 3

Compare API pricing across 3 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
GCP Vertex AI	$0.060	$0.180	Serverless
Fireworks AI	$0.200	$0.200	Serverless
Bitdeer AI	$0.080	$0.240	Serverless

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Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

HumanEvalRank 83 of 99

Claude Sonnet 4.6

98.0

96.7

Claude Opus 4.6

95.0

Grok-3

94.5

Gemma 2 9Bcurrent

58.4

Benchmark scores(3)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.

Benchmark	Score	Version	Evaluation	Source
HumanEval	58.4	pass@1Observed 2026-03-06	—	Source
Massive Multitask Language Understanding	71.5	5-shotObserved 2026-03-06	—	Source
MMLU PRO	52.1	—Observed 2026-04-14	—	Source