Google models

Vertex AI features a growing list of foundation models that you can test, deploy, and customize for use in your AI-based applications. Foundation models are fine-tuned for specific use cases and offered at different price points. This page summarizes the models that are available in the various APIs and gives you guidance on which models to choose by use case.

For more information about all AI models and APIs on Vertex AI, see Explore AI models in Model Garden.

Gemini models

The following table summarizes the models available in the Gemini API. For more information about API details, see the Gemini API reference.

To explore a model in the Google Cloud console, select its model card in the Model Garden.

Model	Inputs	Outputs	Use case	Try the model
Gemini 1.5 Flash	Text, code, images, audio, video, video with audio, PDF	Text	Provides speed and efficiency for high-volume, quality, cost-effective apps.	Try the Gemini 1.5 Flash model
Gemini 1.5 Pro	Text, code, images, audio, video, video with audio, PDF	Text	Supports text or chat prompts for a text or code response. Supports long-context understanding up to the maximum input token limit.	Try the Gemini 1.5 Pro model
Gemini 1.0 Pro	Text	Text	The best performing model for a wide range of text-only tasks.	Go to the Gemini 1.0 Pro model card
Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision	Text, images, audio, video, video with audio, PDF	Text	The best performing image and video understanding model to handle a broad range of applications.	Try the Gemini 1.0 Pro Vision model

The following information provides details for each Gemini model.

Gemini language support

• All the Gemini models can understand and respond in the following languages:

  Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn), Bulgarian (bg), Chinese simplified and traditional (zh), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el), Hebrew (iw), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Spanish (es), Swahili (sw), Swedish (sv), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi)

• Gemini 1.5 Pro and Gemini 1.5 Flash models can understand and respond in the following additional languages:

  Afrikaans (af), Amharic (am), Assamese (as), Azerbaijani (az), Belarusian (be), Bosnian (bs), Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Corsican (co), Welsh (cy), Dhivehi (dv), Esperanto (eo), Basque (eu), Persian (fa), Filipino (Tagalog) (fil), Frisian (fy), Irish (ga), Scots Gaelic (gd), Galician (gl), Gujarati (gu), Hausa (ha), Hawaiian (haw), Hmong (hmn), Haitian Creole (ht), Armenian (hy), Igbo (ig), Icelandic (is), Javanese (jv), Georgian (ka), Kazakh (kk), Khmer (km), Kannada (kn), Krio (kri), Kurdish (ku), Kyrgyz (ky), Latin (la), Luxembourgish (lb), Lao (lo), Malagasy (mg), Maori (mi), Macedonian (mk), Malayalam (ml), Mongolian (mn), Meiteilon (Manipuri) (mni-Mtei), Marathi (mr), Malay (ms), Maltese (mt), Myanmar (Burmese) (my), Nepali (ne), Nyanja (Chichewa) (ny), Odia (Oriya) (or), Punjabi (pa), Pashto (ps), Sindhi (sd), Sinhala (Sinhalese) (si), Samoan (sm), Shona (sn), Somali (so), Albanian (sq), Sesotho (st), Sundanese (su), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Tajik (tg), Uyghur (ug), Urdu (ur), Uzbek (uz), Xhosa (xh), Yiddish (yi), Yoruba (yo), Zulu (zu)

Gemma models

The following table summarizes Gemma models.

Model	Inputs	Outputs	Use case	Try the model
Gemma Model details	Text	Text	A small-sized, lightweight open text model supporting text generation, summarization, and extraction. Deployable in environments with limited resources.	Try Gemma
CodeGemma Model details	Text, Code, PDF	Text	A collection of lightweight open code models built on top of Gemma. Best for code generation and completion.	Try CodeGemma
PaliGemma Model details	Text, Images	Text	A lightweight vision-language model (VLM). Best for image captioning tasks and visual question and answering tasks.	Try PaliGemma

Gemma language support

Gemma supports only the English language.

Embeddings models

The following table summarizes the models available in the Embeddings API.

Model name	Description	Specifications	Try the model
Embeddings for text (textembedding-gecko@001, textembedding-gecko@002, textembedding-gecko@003, text-embedding-004) Model details	Returns embeddings for English text inputs. Supports supervised tuning of Embeddings for text models, English only.	Max token input: 3,072 (textembedding-gecko@001). Others: 2,048. Embedding dimensions: text-embedding-004: <=768. Others: 768.	Try Embeddings for text
Embeddings for text multilingual (textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001, text-multilingual-embedding-002) Model details	Returns embeddings for text inputs of over 100 languages Supports supervised tuning of the text-multilingual-embedding-002 model. Supports 100 languages.	Max token input: 2,048. Embedding dimensions: text-multilingual-embedding-002: <=768. Others: 768.	Try Embeddings for text multilingual
Embeddings for multimodal (multimodalembedding) Model details	Returns embedding for text, image, and video inputs, to compare content across different models. Converts text, image, and video into the same vector space. Video only supports 1408 dimensions. English only	Max token input: 32. Max image size: 20 MB. Max video length: Two minutes. Embedding dimensions: 128, 256, 512, or 1408 for text+image input, 1408 for video input.	Try Embeddings for multimodal

Embeddings language support

Text multilingual embedding models support the following languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, West Frisian, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu.

Imagen model

The following table summarizes the models available in the Imagen API:

Model	Inputs	Outputs	Use case	Try the model
Imagen (imagen-3.0-generate-001, imagen-3.0-fast-generate-001, imagegeneration@006, imagegeneration@005, imagegeneration@002) Model details	Text (generation), Images (editing)	Images	This model supports image generation and editing to create high quality images in seconds. The editing feature supports object removal and insertion, outpainting, and product editing.	Try Imagen

Imagen 3 language support

Imagen 3 supports the following languages:
English, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Code completion model

The following table summarizes the models available in the Codey APIs:

Model	Inputs	Outputs	Use case	Try the model
Codey for Code Completion (code-gecko) Model details	Code in supported languages	Code in supported languages	A model fine-tuned to suggest code completion based on the context in code that's written.	Try Codey for Code Completion

Code completion model language support

The Code completion model supports the English language.

MedLM models

The following table summarizes the models available in the MedLM API:

Model name	Description	Specifications	Try the model
MedLM-medium (medlm-medium) Model details	A HIPAA-compliant suite of medically tuned models and APIs powered by Google Research. This model helps healthcare practitioners with medical question and answer tasks, and summarization tasks for healthcare and medical documents. Provides better throughput and includes more recent data than the medlm-large model.	Max tokens (input + output): 32,768. Max output tokens: 8,192.	Try MedLM-medium
MedLM-large (medlm-large) Model details	A HIPAA-compliant suite of medically tuned models and APIs powered by Google Research. This model helps healthcare practitioners with medical question and answer tasks, and summarization tasks for healthcare and medical documents.	Max input tokens: 8,192. Max output tokens: 1,024.	Try MedLM-large

MedLM Provisioned Throughput support

MedLM-medium and MedLM-large support Provisioned Throughput. See Supported models.

MedLM language support

The MedLM model supports the English language.

Locations

For a list of locations where these models are available, see Generative AI on Vertex AI locations.

Model versions

To learn about model versions, see Model versions.

Explore all models in Model Garden

Model Garden is a platform that helps you discover, test, customize, and deploy Google proprietary and select OSS models and assets. To explore the generative AI models and APIs that are available on Vertex AI, go to Model Garden in the Google Cloud console.

Go to Model Garden

To learn more about Model Garden, including available models and capabilities, see Explore AI models in Model Garden.

What's next

• Try a quickstart tutorial using Vertex AI Studio or the Vertex AI API.
• Learn how to test text prompts.
• Learn how to test chat prompts.
• Explore pretrained models in Model Garden.
• Learn how to tune a foundation model.
• Learn about responsible AI best practices and Vertex AI's safety filters.
• Learn how to control access to specific models in Model Garden by using a Model Garden organization policy.