Gemma 2 9B
Gemma 2 9B is worth evaluating for coding, classification, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, classification, and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI
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.
Gemma 2 9B is an open-weight model in the Gemma 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through GCP Vertex AI, Fireworks AI, and Bitdeer AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.06 input and $0.18 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include HumanEval 58.4, Massive Multitask Language Understanding 71.5, and MMLU PRO 52.1.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ A1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ B2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
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 | $0.060 | $0.180 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Bitdeer AI | $0.080 | $0.240 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
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.
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.
Martian
RouterAI-powered LLM router that analyzes each prompt in real-time to select the optimal model, targeting 20–97% cost reduction while maintaining quality; San Francisco startup reportedly nearing $1.3B valuation.
Neutrino AI
RouterCommercial LLM router that dynamically routes each query to the best-suited model with load balancing and fallback handling, charging 3% of underlying AI spend.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 58.4 | pass@1 | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 71.5 | 5-shot | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
| MMLU PRO | 52.1 | — | https://huggingface.co/spaces/TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
Cheapest of 3 routes · GCP Vertex AI