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PaliGemma

paligemma

Researched 29d ago

Last refreshed 2026-05-11. Next refresh: weekly.

ProprietaryMultimodalAgentsVisionJSON / Tool use

PaliGemma is worth evaluating for agents, vision, and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Agents task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-04-19.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating agents, vision, and json / tool use
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence

Cheapest output

Free

GCP Vertex AI per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-04-19

Researched 29d ago

fresh

Top use-case fit

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
GCP Vertex AIFreeFree
Serverless

Benchmark peer barsfor Agents

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

Google PaliGemma compact vision-language model for visual understanding tasks.

PaliGemma input tokens at $0/1M, output at $0/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGemma 3
Released2024-03-01
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website

Providers(1)