Gemma 2B Instruct
Gemma 2B Instruct is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 2k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
Cheapest of 7 routes · Fireworks AI
About
Gemma 2B Instruct is a large language model developed by Google, designed to balance performance and accessibility with its 2 billion parameters. Derived from the Gemini family, it excels in tasks such as text generation, code interpretation, and mathematical problem-solving. Built on a transformer decoder architecture, it features multi-query attention, RoPE, GeGLU activations, and RMSNorm. Trained on approximately 6 trillion tokens, including web documents, code, and mathematical content, it uses SFT and RLHF for instruction-tuning. Notable for its lightweight design permitting deployment on consumer-grade hardware, it's open-source and optimized for dialogue applications. Despite its capabilities, limitations include potential biases, factual inaccuracies, and challenges with complex reasoning.
Gemma 2B Instruct is an open-weight model in the Gemma family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Together AI, GCP Vertex AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, and 4 more, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.04 input and $0.12 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Gemma 2B Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit
Classification
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JSON / Tool use
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Provider price ladder
Compare all 7Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| Together AI | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.040 | $0.120 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.050 | $0.250 | Serverless |
Available via routers & gateways(14)
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 Classification
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Gemma 2B Instruct?
Gemma 2B Instruct has a context window of 2k tokens.
How much does Gemma 2B Instruct cost?
Gemma 2B Instruct pricing ranges from $0.04/1M to $0.1/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Gemma 2B Instruct released?
Gemma 2B Instruct was released on 2024-02-21.
Which providers offer Gemma 2B Instruct?
Gemma 2B Instruct is available from 7 providers: Together AI, GCP Vertex AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, NVIDIA NIM, Alibaba Cloud PAI-EAS, Fireworks AI, Replicate API.
Cheapest of 7 routes · Fireworks AI