Gemma 4 E2B IT
- Family
- Gemma 4
- Released
- 2026-03-31
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 2B
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-01
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 2 routes · GCP Vertex AI
About
Instruction-tuned variant of Gemma 4 E2B for edge deployment with enhanced instruction-following capabilities.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ AProvider 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | Free | Free | Serverless |
| Google AI Studio | - | - | 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
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 43.4 | diamondObserved 2026-04-28 | — | Source |
| MMLU PRO | 60.0 | From official Gemma 4 model card (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| AIME 2026 | 37.5 | AIME 2026 (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
| LiveCodeBench | 44.0 | LiveCodeBench v6 (accuracy)Observed 2026-06-07 | — | Source |
Migration checks
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Rankings & picks(1)
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