EmbeddingGemma 300M
Hugging Face (Google) Open weights
The catch: The Hugging Face download needs a login and acknowledging Google's licence, and activations do not support float16 (use float32 or bfloat16).
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 300M parameters; 768-dim embeddings (Matryoshka 512, 256 or 128); 2048-token input. The Gemma Terms of Use set no user or revenue cap. |
| Modality | embeddings |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Gemma Terms of Use |
| Context window | 2,048 tokens |
| Model id | google/embeddinggemma-300m |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use EmbeddingGemma 300M
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Gemma Terms of Use.
Quickstart
ollama pull embeddinggemma
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I want to run the open-weight model "EmbeddingGemma 300M" (google/embeddinggemma-300m) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- The Hugging Face download needs a login and acknowledging Google's licence, and activations do not support float16 (use float32 or bfloat16).
- Gemma Terms of Use (ai.google.dev/gemma/terms, last modified 1 Apr 2026): s2.2 lets you use, reproduce, modify and distribute with no commercial bar; s3.2 bans uses in the Gemma Prohibited Use Policy and s3.1 requires…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is EmbeddingGemma 300M free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Gemma Terms of Use. No credit card is needed.
Can I use EmbeddingGemma 300M commercially?
Yes, under Gemma Terms of Use. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with EmbeddingGemma 300M?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Gemma Terms of Use.
Source: huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-300m, checked 2 Oct 2026.