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Gemma 4 E2B

Hugging Face (open weights) Open weights

The catch: The smallest Gemma 4, so expect clearly weaker answers than the larger sizes; outputs text only.

AccessOpen weights
Free limitsFree to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. 2.3B effective parameters (5.1B with embeddings), the smallest Gemma 4; reads text, images, video and audio; 128K-token context.
Modalitytext, image, video, audio
Credit cardNot required
Commercial useAllowed
Trains on your data–
Licence or termsApache-2.0
Context window131,072 tokens
Model idgoogle/gemma-4-E2B-it
Base URL–
Last checked8 Oct 2026

How to use Gemma 4 E2B

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.

Quickstart 
vllm serve google/gemma-4-E2B-it  # then: curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"model":"google/gemma-4-E2B-it","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Paste into Claude Code 
I want to run the open-weight model "Gemma 4 E2B" (google/gemma-4-E2B-it) 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.
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Before you ship on it

  • The smallest Gemma 4, so expect clearly weaker answers than the larger sizes; outputs text only.
  • Apache-2.0 (licence tag on the HF repo, linking ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/gemma_4_license): use, modify, distribute and sell, including commercially; keep the licence and notices when you redistribute.
  • Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.

Questions

Is Gemma 4 E2B free?

Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Apache-2.0. No credit card is needed.

Can I use Gemma 4 E2B commercially?

Yes, under Apache-2.0. Check the current terms before you ship.

How do I start with Gemma 4 E2B?

Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Apache-2.0.

Source: huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it, checked 8 Oct 2026.