text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 2k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Gemini Embedding
- Released
- 2023-02-01
- Context
- 2k
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Proprietary
- License
- ProprietaryCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Not released
- Code
- Unknown
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI is Google DeepMind's Gemini Embedding model. It was released 2023-02-01.
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI is a proprietary model in the Gemini Embedding family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through GCP Vertex AI. No headline benchmark score is tracked for text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.100 | - | 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
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI?
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI has a context window of 2k tokens.
How much does text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI cost?
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI is available at $0.1/1M input tokens through GCP Vertex AI.
When was text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI released?
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI was released on 2023-02-01.
Which providers offer text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI?
text-embedding-004 on Google Vertex AI is available from 1 provider: GCP Vertex AI.
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI