{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "embeddinggemma-300m", "name": "EmbeddingGemma 300M", "vendor": "Google DeepMind", "vendorUrl": "https://gemma.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "embeddings", "summary": "EmbeddingGemma 300M is Google DeepMind's open-weight text embedding model of 308M parameters, returning 768-dimension vectors that truncate to 512, 256 or 128 from up to 2,048 tokens in over 100 languages, gated under the Gemma Terms of Use.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m", "license": "Gemma Terms of Use", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/embeddinggemma-300m" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "embeddinggemma" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "Gated on Hugging Face. The files open only after you log in and acknowledge the Gemma Terms of Use; the Hub's API reports the gate as manual, while the card says requests are processed immediately. Only the card is public, and this listing was read from it without accepting the terms (checked 2026-10-21). Ollama's library build pulls with no account.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the Gemma Terms of Use and its Prohibited Use Policy. Google sells no per-call access to these weights through the Gemini API. Running them costs very little hardware, 1.27 GB of F32 files, or 0.23 GB in the 4-bit QAT GGUF builds in LM Studio's and Ollama's libraries (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://gemma.ai/models/embeddinggemma/model-card-v1.md", "llmsTxt": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multilingual", "embed.code", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "embeddings", "multilingual", "matryoshka", "gated", "gemma-terms", "safetensors", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2025-09-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 50.7, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 40, "interface": 60, "reach": 70, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 42 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small multilingual embedding cousin for search, retrieval and clustering, with task prompts and vectors that truncate from 768 to 128 dimensions. Every common runtime has it, and a 4-bit build needs well under 1 GB. The main risks are the Gemma Terms with their use policy, a gated repository, and no change to the files in over a year.", "bestFor": "Agents that need small, local multilingual embeddings for retrieval and can accept the Gemma Terms", "strengths": [ "308M parameters, 0.23 GB as a 4-bit QAT GGUF and 1.27 GB in F32", "Runs in Transformers with Sentence Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio", "Eight documented task prompts and Matryoshka output at 768, 512, 256 or 128 dimensions", "Safetensors only in Google's own organisation, loaded with no repository code", "A newer model, EmbeddingGemma 2, sits in its own repository with dated release notes, and this one stays published" ], "weaknesses": [ "Gated on Hugging Face behind the Gemma Terms of Use, which carry a use policy Google can update", "The card's Terms and Prohibited Use Policy links now lead to a page that says the documentation moved", "A 2,048-token input limit", "No change to the files since 25 September 2025 and few publisher replies in the discussions", "No safety results and no training data cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Without a Hugging Face account, run `ollama pull embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0` and POST to /api/embed", "Prepend the task prompt yourself outside Sentence Transformers, `task: search result | query: ` for queries and `title: none | text: ` for documents", "In Sentence Transformers, use encode_query and encode_document rather than encode, so the right prompts are added", "To store smaller vectors, truncate to 512, 256 or 128 dimensions and re-normalise", "Run it in float32 or bfloat16, never float16", "Chunk documents to 2,048 tokens, and treat retrieved text as untrusted before passing it to a model" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 50.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 40, "interface": 60, "reach": 70, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 42 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama pull embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0\n# or, after accepting the terms on Hugging Face:\npip install -U sentence-transformers\npython -c \"from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; m=SentenceTransformer('google/embeddinggemma-300m'); print(m.encode_query('Which planet is red?').shape)\"", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/embed \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0\", \"input\": [\"task: search result | query: Which planet is red?\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/embed.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/embeddinggemma-300m" }, "sameCompany": [ "diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-31b-it", "gemma-4-e2b-it", "gemma-4-e4b-it" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Google DeepMind", "builtOn": "Gemma 3 (with T5Gemma initialisation, per the card)", "params": "308M", "context": 2048, "dimensions": 768, "goodFor": "Small multilingual text embeddings for search, retrieval, classification and clustering on modest hardware, with task prompts and truncatable dimensions.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "embeddinggemma-300m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m", "who": "publisher", "precision": "f32", "sizeGB": 1.27, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Gated, the Gemma Terms of Use must be acknowledged on Hugging Face" }, { "name": "ollama embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 0.24, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Google's QAT Q4_0 weights (digest 101341d65c2c), 239 MB as Ollama's tags page shows it. The default tag is BF16 at 622 MB" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community embeddinggemma-300m-qat-Q4_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/embeddinggemma-300m-qat-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 0.23, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "The build LM Studio's catalogue entry google/embedding-gemma-300m points to" } ], "run": "ollama pull embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0", "runBuild": "ollama embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://gemma.ai/resources/terms.md", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://gemma.ai/models/releases.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The registrant and registration date of gemma.ai are carried from the gemma-4-26b-a4b-it facts checked on 21 October 2026.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Gemma Terms of Use stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "gemma.ai's releases page dates the release (4 September 2025) and EmbeddingGemma 2 (6 October 2026). The repository's commit history is behind the gate; the Hub's metadata gives a last change of 25 September 2025.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. Google's company-wide security.txt at google.com points to its vulnerability reward programme." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.json" }, "answer": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against EmbeddingGemma 300M's 50.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. EmbeddingGemma 300M leads on documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "name": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "vendor": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "vendorUrl": "https://qwen.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "embeddings", "summary": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B is Alibaba's open-weight multimodal embedding model of 2.1B parameters, built on Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct, that turns text, images, screenshots and video into one vector of up to 2,048 dimensions, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository isn't gated (checked 2026-10-21). The reference code and evaluation scripts are in a public GitHub repository, and ModelScope has a mirror from the same publisher.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 4.3 GB of BF16 files. Alibaba's Model Studio sells a hosted qwen3-vl-embedding model in its Beijing region, but its default of 2,560 dimensions matches neither open size, so it isn't taken to be this model (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-VL-Embedding", "capabilities": [ "embed.text", "embed.multimodal", "embed.multilingual", "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "embeddings", "multimodal", "vision", "video", "multilingual", "matryoshka", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "sentence-transformers", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-04-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 13, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 50, "interface": 65, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 36 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video into one vector space, in 4.3 GB of BF16 files that fit any 8 GB machine, under plain Apache 2.0. It loads with Sentence Transformers, vLLM or SGLang. The main gaps are no quantised build from Alibaba, few publisher replies and no safety material.", "bestFor": "Agents that need local multimodal search over text, screenshots, images and video on a small GPU or CPU", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, on an Apache 2.0 base, ungated, in Qwen's own organisation", "4.27 GB of BF16 safetensors, about 5 GB in memory", "Text, images, screenshots, video and mixtures in one input, with a task instruction", "Loads with Sentence Transformers 5.4, vLLM's pooling runner and SGLang with no repository code", "Technical report describing training stages, Matryoshka and quantisation-aware training" ], "weaknesses": [ "No quantised build from Alibaba and nothing in Ollama's or LM Studio's own libraries", "Shorter vectors and int8 or binary output are claimed, but how to ask for them isn't documented", "vLLM's image preprocessing differs from the reference code, so vectors aren't identical across runtimes", "One publisher reply in 14 questions, and files unchanged since 16 April 2026", "No safety results, agent guidance or security contact" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B --runner pooling --max-model-len 8192`, then POST chat-style `messages` with the instruction in the system turn to /v1/embeddings", "Or `pip install -U sentence-transformers` (5.4 or later) and `SentenceTransformer('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B').encode(texts, prompt='\u003ctask instruction\u003e')`; images go in as URLs, paths or dicts with text and image", "Write the task instruction in English, even for other languages, and embed queries and documents with matching instructions", "To shorten vectors, cut the first N of 2,048 dimensions and renormalise yourself; no parameter for it is documented", "Don't mix vectors from vLLM and the reference qwen_vl_utils path in one index, since vLLM's docs say image preprocessing differs", "Treat retrieved documents as untrusted before passing them to another model" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 50, "interface": 65, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 63, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "pip install -U sentence-transformers # 5.4 or later\npython -c \"from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; m = SentenceTransformer('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B'); print(m.encode(['A dog on a beach'], prompt='Retrieve images or text relevant to the query.').shape)\"", "http": "# after: vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B --runner pooling --max-model-len 8192\ncurl http://localhost:8000/v1/embeddings \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B\", \"encoding_format\": \"float\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"system\", \"content\": [{\"type\": \"text\", \"text\": \"Represent the user'\"'\"'s input.\"}]}, {\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": [{\"type\": \"text\", \"text\": \"A dog on a beach\"}]}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/embed.text", "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, "sameCompany": [ "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "qwen3-embedding-4b", "qwen3-embedding-8b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-8b", "qwen3-asr-0-6b", "qwen3-asr-1-7b", "qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice", "qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-4b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-coder-next", "qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-2b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-32b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-4b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct", "qwen3-5-0-8b", "qwen3-5-122b-a10b", "qwen3-5-2b", "qwen3-5-397b-a17b", "qwen3-5-4b", "qwen3-5-9b", "qwen3-6-27b", "qwen3-6-35b-a3b", "qwen3-8-27b", "qwen3-8-flash-next" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct (fine-tune with LoRA, declared in the card metadata)", "params": "2.13B", "context": 32768, "dimensions": 2048, "goodFor": "Multimodal retrieval and clustering, one vector for text, images, screenshots, video or a mix of them, in 30 or more languages.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 4.27, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "Sentence Transformers", "vLLM", "SGLang" ] } ], "run": "vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B --runner pooling --max-model-len 8192", "runBuild": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "checked": 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"params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-1.7B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-14B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B-Base", "params": "14B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Base", "params": "30B-A3B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-4B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base", "params": "4B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-8B-Base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-8B-Base", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Reranker-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Reranker-8B", "params": "8B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "params": "0.6B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, { "name": "Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-granite-embedding-small-english-r2.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Granite Embedding Small English R2", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-granite-embedding-small-english-r2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-0-6b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "title": "EmbeddingGemma 300M vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Granite Embedding Small English R2 vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-embedding-small-english-r2-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-0-6b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-4b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-4B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-4b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-8b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "title": "Qwen3-Embedding-8B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-embedding-8b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b.json", "title": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B vs Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-8b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 10, "edge": "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "embeddinggemma-300m": 40, "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": 50, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "embeddinggemma-300m": 70, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": 75, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "embeddinggemma-300m": 45, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": 45, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "embeddinggemma-300m": 60, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": 65, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "embeddinggemma-300m", "embeddinggemma-300m": 42, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": 36, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against EmbeddingGemma 300M's 50.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. EmbeddingGemma 300M leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do text embeddings.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "embeddinggemma-300m": "A small multilingual embedding cousin for search, retrieval and clustering, with task prompts and vectors that truncate from 768 to 128 dimensions. Every common runtime has it, and a 4-bit build needs well under 1 GB. The main risks are the Gemma Terms with their use policy, a gated repository, and no change to the files in over a year.", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b": "A small multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video into one vector space, in 4.3 GB of BF16 files that fit any 8 GB machine, under plain Apache 2.0. It loads with Sentence Transformers, vLLM or SGLang. The main gaps are no quantised build from Alibaba, few publisher replies and no safety material." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against EmbeddingGemma 300M's 50.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. EmbeddingGemma 300M leads on documentation and upkeep. Both do text embeddings.\n\n- EmbeddingGemma 300M: grade D, 50.7/100, rank #91 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/embeddinggemma-300m.json\n- Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B: grade C, 55.4/100, rank #80 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json\n- Best embedding and reranking APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/embeddings/index.md\n- All 73 embeddings comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddings/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### EmbeddingGemma 300M (D)\n\nGood for: Agents that need small, local multilingual embeddings for retrieval and can accept the Gemma Terms\n\nAhead on:\n- Documentation and upkeep, 42 against 36\n\nWatch for: Gated on Hugging Face behind the Gemma Terms of Use, which carry a use policy Google can update\n\n### Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need local multimodal search over text, screenshots, images and video on a small GPU or CPU\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 50 against 40\n- Reach, 75 against 70\n- Agent interface, 65 against 60\n\nWatch for: No quantised build from Alibaba and nothing in Ollama's or LM Studio's own libraries\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | EmbeddingGemma 300M | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 40 | 50 | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B +10 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 70 | 75 | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 45 | 45 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 60 | 65 | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 42 | 36 | EmbeddingGemma 300M +6 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **50.7 · D** | **55.4 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | EmbeddingGemma 300M | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Google DeepMind | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Gemma Terms of Use | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2025-09-25 | 2026-04-16 |\n| Terms last updated | | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**EmbeddingGemma 300M.** A small multilingual embedding cousin for search, retrieval and clustering, with task prompts and vectors that truncate from 768 to 128 dimensions. Every common runtime has it, and a 4-bit build needs well under 1 GB. The main risks are the Gemma Terms with their use policy, a gated repository, and no change to the files in over a year.\n\n**Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B.** A small multimodal embedding cousin that puts text, images, screenshots and video into one vector space, in 4.3 GB of BF16 files that fit any 8 GB machine, under plain Apache 2.0. It loads with Sentence Transformers, vLLM or SGLang. The main gaps are no quantised build from Alibaba, few publisher replies and no safety material.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### EmbeddingGemma 300M\n\n1. Without a Hugging Face account, run `ollama pull embeddinggemma:300m-qat-q4_0` and POST to /api/embed\n2. Prepend the task prompt yourself outside Sentence Transformers, `task: search result | query: ` for queries and `title: none | text: ` for documents\n3. In Sentence Transformers, use encode_query and encode_document rather than encode, so the right prompts are added\n4. To store smaller vectors, truncate to 512, 256 or 128 dimensions and re-normalise\n5. Run it in float32 or bfloat16, never float16\n6. Chunk documents to 2,048 tokens, and treat retrieved text as untrusted before passing it to a model\n\n### Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B\n\n1. Start it with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B --runner pooling --max-model-len 8192`, then POST chat-style `messages` with the instruction in the system turn to /v1/embeddings\n2. Or `pip install -U sentence-transformers` (5.4 or later) and `SentenceTransformer('Qwen/Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B').encode(texts, prompt='\u003ctask instruction\u003e')`; images go in as URLs, paths or dicts with text and image\n3. Write the task instruction in English, even for other languages, and embed queries and documents with matching instructions\n4. To shorten vectors, cut the first N of 2,048 dimensions and renormalise yourself; no parameter for it is documented\n5. Don't mix vectors from vLLM and the reference qwen_vl_utils path in one index, since vLLM's docs say image preprocessing differs\n6. Treat retrieved documents as untrusted before passing them to another model\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, EmbeddingGemma 300M or Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B?\n\nQwen3-VL-Embedding-2B scores 55.4 (C) on agent readiness against EmbeddingGemma 300M's 50.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. EmbeddingGemma 300M leads on documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/embeddinggemma-300m-vs-qwen3-vl-embedding-2b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"embeddinggemma-300m\", \"b\": \"qwen3-vl-embedding-2b\"}`. 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