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gemma-2-2b

Name: gemma-2-2b
Author: google

Params

2.6 B

Context

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Downloads 30d

193 K

Likes

698

Commercial use: conditional · gemma Gated — accept licence SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

daily snapshots · 56 days

▲ 91 K in the last 30 days (32.0%)

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	f32	10.5 GB	12.4 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/gemma-2-2b
{
  "hf_id": "google/gemma-2-2b",
  "params_b": 2.61,
  "context_length": null,
  "license": { "id": "gemma", "commercial": "conditional" },
  "downloads_30d": 193408,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "f32", "gb": 12.4 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:07:44Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: Gemma2ForCausalLM
Parameters: 2.6 B
Tensor type: F32
Licence: gemma
First seen on the Hub: 2024-07-16
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

Family

Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.

Derivative gemma-2-2b-it google 663 K

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