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ShieldGemma 2

shieldgemma-2

Researched 29d ago

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

ProprietaryMultimodalAgentsVisionClassificationJSON / Tool use

ShieldGemma 2 is worth evaluating for agents, vision, and classification 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 classification
  • 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.

Classification

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 ShieldGemma 2 safety classification model for harmful content detection.

ShieldGemma 2 input tokens at $0/1M, output at $0/1M.

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalFunction CallingTool UseStructured Outputs

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGemma 3
Released2024-09-01
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationsafety
LicenseProprietary
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website

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